Boston’s Safe Space for Heroin Users [TheAtlantic.com]
A Boston nonprofit plans to soon test a new way of addressing the city’s heroin epidemic. The idea is simple: Starting in March, along a stretch of road that has come to be called Boston’s “Methadone Mile,” the program will open a room with a nurse, some soft chairs, and basic life-saving equipment—a place where heroin users can ride out their high, under medical supervision. Jessie Gaeta, the chief medical officer at the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program , which initiated the...