| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Konsumräume
USA. Safe injection sites to fight opioid overdose deaths get green light from Philadelphia officials
USA. Safe injection sites to fight opioid overdose deaths get green light from Philadelphia officials
After a year in which overdoses outstripped the murder rate by 4-1, librarians ran outside to save people from overdosing, and makeshift heroin camps sprawled under bridges and on street corners, Philadelphia city officials Tuesday took their most radical step yet against the opioid crisis.
It’s time, they declared, to do what no other U.S. city has done: Establish medically supervised facilities where people can inject drugs, be revived if they overdose, and then be helped into treatment. (The Philadelphia Inquirer, USA, 23.01.2018)