Behind supervised injection sites: A controversial solution to overdose deaths

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

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4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Only one city in the U.S. has supervised drug injection sites to combat overdose deaths. We discuss a life-saving solution that’s seemingly too controversial. Peter Davidson and Ronda Goldfein join Kimberly Atkins Stohr.

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0:29.7	And this is on point.
0:31.7	On June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon gave a historic speech
0:37.0	that set the country's drug policy for decades to come.
0:40.4	America's public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse.
0:46.7	It was the start of America's so-called war on drugs.
0:50.1	Just two years later, the Nixon administration
0:52.7	created the Drug Enforcement Administration,
0:55.4	a law enforcement agency charged
0:57.6	with targeting illegal drug use and distribution.
1:01.0	In the 1980s, a mid-public concern about a surge in crack cocaine,
1:05.5	the Reagan administration expanded the war on drugs even further.
1:09.2	The focus was put on criminal punishment,
1:11.7	over treatment, or rehabilitation.
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