"The failure of mass incarceration to dissuade drug use, the growing rate of overdose deaths, and the ample evidence that safe injection sites can decrease these deaths has created a growing demand in the U.S. for a different model."
In the Netherlands, Safe Drug Consumption Sites Are Saving Lives. The U.S. Is Resisting.
After years of activism, the Dutch have embraced state-sponsored supervised injection sites as the standard of care for opioid treatment. Reporting from Amsterdam, our writer finds that they offer lessons for the U.S., where the war on drugs has failed to stop an overdose crisis.
boltsmag.org