Philadelphia Already Has Safe Injection Sites, But Not For Everyone

<p>According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),&nbsp;<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&nbsp;<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 &mdash; people who study diseases and conditions, who gets them, and what to do about them &mdash; know there are viable solutions to the problem. We know because we have studied what works and what doesn&rsquo;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.</p> <p><a href="https://epiren.medium.com/philadelphia-already-has-safe-injection-sites-but-not-for-everyone-530da0cfb1eb"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>
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