The AP (5/8, Johnson) reports, “For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether overdoses can be prevented by so-called safe injection sites, places where people can use heroin and other illegal drugs and be revived if they” overdose. This “grant provides more than $5 million over four years to New York University and Brown University to study two sites in New York City and one opening next year in Providence, Rhode Island.” Investigators now “hope to enroll 1,000 adult drug users to study the sites’ effects on overdoses, to estimate their costs and to gauge potential savings for the health care and criminal justice systems.”
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— “US backs study of safe injection sites, overdose prevention “Carla K. Johnson , AP , May 8, 2023