Philadelphia City Council approved two bills on Thursday that would prohibit supervised injection sites throughout most of the city and would require more community involvement before they could be built.
Bass questioned how a supervised injection site would treat a teenager or pregnant woman who arrived and intended to use heroin or how the staff at one of the sites might handle someone who intended to drive shortly after shooting up.
"Who is responsible?" she wondered aloud."Is the City of Philadelphia responsable once you get behind the wheel of a car?"said that he supported long-term rehabilitation programs over supervised injections sites as efforts to help those struggling with addiction. "Giving them a place to get high is only keeping them out there longer," said Harrity."We need to make it easier to get them in to long term treatment."
Prior to Thursday's vote, City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier -- councilman atop the only district where supervised injection sites could be located following the zoning overlay that council approved -- said that supervised injection sites save lives. “When we are talking about saving lives, we should not take anything off the table. I know my colleagues are just as concerned as I am by the drug crisis, and I am unwilling to deny my constituents their right to at least consider a tool that has been proven to save lives in other jurisdictions," she said in a statement, noting that there are no current plans to build a supervised injection site in her district.
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