Philadelphia Already Has Safe Injection Sites, But Not For Everyone

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/index.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">over 100,000 people lose their lives each year from drug overdoses</a>. Most of them die from overdosing on opioid drugs, as the country continues to suffer from <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/opioids/basics/epidemic.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">the most recent wave of opioid overdoses and deaths</a>. We epidemiologists — people who study diseases and conditions, who gets them, and what to do about them — know there are viable solutions to the problem. We know because we have studied what works and what doesn’t in many places around the world, starting with Portugal, a model for what drug policy at all levels of government could be doing to stop drug use in general and deaths in particular. <a href="https://epiren.medium.com/philadelphia-already-has-safe-injection-sites-but-not-for-everyone-530da0cfb1eb">Click Here</a>