Two modest rooms in New York City are the first places in the United States where local officials are allowing illicit drug use to make it less deadly
In their first three months, the sites in upper Manhattan’s East Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods halted more than 150 overdoses during about 9,500 visits — many of them repeat visits from some 800 people in all. The sites are planning to expand to round-the-clock service later this year.
New York City's only Republican in Congress, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, has pressed the Justice Department to shutter what she sees as “heroin shooting galleries that only encourage drug use and deteriorate our quality of life.” “The safe consumption site is doing God’s work, but they’re doing it in the wrong place,” says Shawn Hill, who co-founded a neighborhood group called the Greater Harlem Coalition.
“For a lot of our folks, just providing a safe space is an introduction to services,” Feliciano, the center's clinical and holistic care director, said afterward.
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