Though Seattle has already set aside a budget for safe injection sites, Philadelphia city officials announced Tuesday that it is pushing to become the first U.S. city to open supervised drug-injection sites to combat its rampant opioid overdose epidemic.
Safe-injection sites, also called safe-consumption sites, are centers where people can shoot up illicit drugs under the supervision of
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