Abstract
As “overdose prevention centers” opened in New York City last week, Congress had just received the report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) calling for pilot studies into such sites. Also known as “safe injection sites” and other such names, overdose prevention centers, or OPCs, are likely to be incorporated into federal dialogue on what is now not a federally sanctioned activity: providing places where drug users can not only obtain clean syringes, which are legal, but inject illegal drugs like heroin, which are not. The idea, as clearly supported by rising overdose deaths due to contamination by street drug supply with illicit fentanyl, is to keep people alive so that they can then be helped.
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