San Francisco is planning to open two safe injection sites this summer, which city health officials say could help get drug users off the streets into enclosed, supervised centers. And Philadelphia officials in January announced their support for a safe injection sites program. But the San Francisco sites, poised to open as soon as July, would become the first of their kind in the United States. Now, city officials say they are just months away from opening the first two safe injection sites of what may some day be a city-wide phenomenon. A poll conducted for the Chamber of Commerce in January found that 67 percent of voters in the city support the plan to open safe injection sites.

Source: Huffington Post February 07, 2018 21:11 UTC