News US Backs Study of Safe Drug Injection Sites

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US Backs Study of Safe Drug Injection Sites

NewsMax
8 May 2023

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For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether overdoses can be prevented by so-called safe injection sites, places where people can use heroin and other illegal drugs and be revived if they take too much.

The grant provides more than $5 million over four years to New York University and Brown University to study two sites in New York City and one opening next year in Providence, Rhode Island.
Researchers hope to enroll 1,000 adult drug users to study the sites' effects on overdoses, to estimate their costs and to gauge potential savings for the health care and criminal justice systems.

The money will not be used to operate the sites, the universities said.

Opponents worry the sites encourage drug use and that they will lead to the deterioration of surrounding neighborhoods.

 

[TheUltimateFixx]

They don't have to do a study, they can just get the statistics from safe injection sites all over Europe. The numbers tell the story.