Jose Collado settled in at a clean white table in a sunlit room, sang a few bars and injected himself with heroin.
Despite winning the Philadelphia case,such sites, saying it was evaluating them and discussing “appropriate guardrails.”
Another New Yorker in Congress, Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney, is a leading sponsor of an addiction-fighting proposal that could make money available for such facilities. Organizers say the New York sites currently run on private donations, though their parent group gets city and state money for syringe exchange, counseling and many other services offered alongside the consumption rooms.
People bring their own drugs — of whatever type — to the consumption rooms, but they’re stocked with syringes, alcohol wipes, straws for snorting and other paraphernalia and, crucially, oxygen and the opioid-overdose-reversing drug naloxone. “For a lot of our folks, just providing a safe space is an introduction to services,” Feliciano, the center’s clinical and holistic care director, said afterward.
The report, by the Boston-based Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, found no link between supervised injection sites and the rates of various crimes, though public drug use dropped off in some places.
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