While supporters tout the benefits of so-called overdose prevention centers as a tool to combat opioid deaths, they remain a political flashpoint
New York state Sen. Gustavo Rivera, pictured with OnPoint’s Senior Program Director Kailin See, said he remains somewhat optimistic the state Legislature will pass a bill that would authorize the state's health department and local health jurisdictions to establish and operate overdose prevention centers. | Amanda Eisenberg/POLITICONEW YORK — Brian Weeks entered an old tenement building on E. 126th Street in Harlem to get high on crack cocaine and heroin.
But what is to advocates like Weeks — a member of Users Union, a grassroots group of current and former addicts committed to ending preventable drug-related deaths — a powerful new tool to combat the opioid crisis, is to others a form of legalized narcotic use. Detractors have compared these centers to heroin shooting galleries that bring crime and quality-of-life concerns. Those behind the centers, critics say, have effectively legalized hard drugs.
barring it from opening. The agency, now under the oversight of President Joe Biden, who helped write the 1986 law but has since softened many of his criminal justice positions, is expected to signal its stance on the case inAn official of Safehouse, the Philadelphia-based nonprofit defendant in the DOJ case, is hopeful about the outcome.
“Our understanding is … they will be announcing a settlement of the case that allows the Philadelphia site to move forward,” King said in an interview. “And, presumably simultaneous with announcing that settlement, they would be offering their guidance to all jurisdictions.”
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