Proponents of safe injection facilities have long cited their success at preventing overdoses and reducing needle-sharing. New research provides another argument for those supporters to draw upon: they're good for everyone's bank accounts.
Supervised injection facilities are centers where people can come to inject heroin, cocaine, and other drugs under the watchful eye of trained staff. The only such facilities that are in legal operation in North America are in Canada, but several United States cities are considering building them. Two recent studies have found that, if they did, San Francisco would reap $3.5 million in health-care savings every year and Baltimorewould save $6 million.
[For more of this story, written by Francie Diep, go to https://psmag.com/economics/ho...elp-users-and-cities]
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