safe injection sites
Supervised drug consumption
Safe injection sites are government-sanctioned facilities where people can use illicit drugs under medical supervision.
Staff provide clean needles, monitor for overdoses, and offer connections to treatment services.
The sites aim to reduce deaths and disease transmission without requiring users to stop using drugs.
Also called supervised injection facilities or overdose prevention centers.
- harm reductionMinimizing adverse outcomes pragmatically
- needle exchangeSafe injection supply service
- overdose preventionEfforts to stop fatal ingestion
- overdose crisisPublic health emergency from lethal consumption
- naloxoneOpioid overdose antidote
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Rules permitting no infractions
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