Siting issues still prominent hurdle in planned development of OPCs

Abstract

Whether they're called “overdose prevention centers (OPCs),” “safe injection sites” or something else, operations that seek to combine spaces for supervised drug use with health and support services continue to elicit strong reaction in the local communities where they're proposed. A persistent lack of direction from the federal government on the legality of these operations has done nothing to quell the controversy, only fueling it further if anything.