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May 6, 2016

Cities, states consider drug-injection rooms

  • Such sites have operated for years in Canada, the Netherlands and Australia, but they face legal and political challenges in the U.S.
    • By DAVID KLEPPER
    Associated Press

    Across the United States, heroin and other drug users have died in alleys behind convenience stores, on city sidewalks and in the bathrooms of fast-food joints — because no one was around to save them when they overdosed.

    An alarming 47,000 American overdose deaths in 2014 has pushed elected leaders from coast to coast to consider government-sanctioned sites where heroin users can shoot up under the supervision of a doctor or nurse who can administer an antidote if necessary.


     
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