Originally Posted by
Flatballer
Supervised injection was certainly on my mind yesterday. They're working to put the first in the country in Philly I think, most likely within a few blocks of where I was. Lots of opposition, but yeah, the research I've seen seems very positive.
The one he worked with was in San Francisco.
There's a bit debate about them in the public health industry. Prevention researchers abhor them - they argue that such facilities offer implicit acceptance of illicit drug abuse and say more should be done to prevent. Harm reduction researchers like them - they argue that prevention efforts have not proven 100 percent effective, so we should do what we can to reduce the negative consequences of illicit drug abuse.