Philadelphia bans supervised injection sites – evidence suggests keeping drug users on the street could do more harm than good
theconversation.com
A group of academics look at the global evidence to examine the potential impact of supervised injection sites in Philadelphia and the US.

The United States remains tightly in the grasp of an ongoing, and escalating, crisis of deaths caused by opioid overdoses.

With a record-high 109,000 people dying in 2022, it is clear that something new needs to be done to reverse this trend.

Philadelphia is near the epicenter of the crisis. Some of the country’s largest open-air drug markets can be found in the Kensington neighborhood. Heroin, prescription opioids and fentanyl aren’t the only drugs of concern. Xylazine, a powerful non-opioid also known as tranq, has an overwhelming presence on the streets.

We are a group of Scandinavian and American researchers who have studied drug treatment and harm reduction, and we have been watching the situation in Philadelphia from a variety of perspectives.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You’re right. I’m the one who can’t read.

    I think I got hung up on some of the wording implying g that it exists, connected to the increased drug deaths

    the Pennsylvania legislature also overwhelmingly voted to ban supervised injection sites in the entire state