Abstract
For years, advocates had worked toward this moment. On November 30, 2021, the nation’s first medically supervised drug injection facility (officially “overdose prevention center”) opened in New York City. The public response—even in a bastion of progressive politics—was surprisingly negative. Opponents claimed that the centers would encourage drug use and moral decay. Why help people who are willfully making bad choices? Why waste public resources, especially when a much larger pandemic loomed?
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