The U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether safe injection sites can make a dent in the nation's overdose epidemic. overdose us politics kprc2 click2hou
FILE - Brian Hackel, right, an overdose prevention specialist, helps Steven Baez, a client suffering addiction, find a vein to inject intravenous drugs at an overdose prevention center, OnPoint NYC, in New York, Feb. 18, 2022. For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether overdoses can be prevented by safe injection sites, places where people can use heroin and other narcotics 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 inResearchers 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.
Opponents worry the sites encourage drug use and that they will lead to the deterioration of surrounding neighborhoods.
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