When did it become legal to do drugs in the open air?

This environment we live in with needles adorning our sidewalks and replacement of flowers,

would it be tolerated anywhere else.

There's a community center for heroin addicts

to go and shoot up under supervision, which I think is crazy.

Ultimately, what we are doing is serving

to protect their property values, their children's safety, the cleanliness of their parks.

We're not different from anybody else.

We just have an addiction, but we are not different from anybody else.

Unfortunately, we go through different circumstances and we live different types of lives

and maybe you handle your problems differently from mine, you know.

So I just think that they shouldn't

discriminate or judge.

That's India, a 41-year-old mother of five who's trying to get clean after dealing with

substance abuse for most of her life.

She's gotten clean in the past, but this time around, India is exploring a new way to detox.

In Manhattan, on 126 street between Park and Lexington Avenues, a nondescript brick and tile building stands tall between an empty lot and an old school no-frills bodega. Across the street, parents clamor at the door of a school to pick up their kids.

This building houses a controversial center known as a safe consumption site, where users can

inject, snort, or smoke drugs under the supervision of trained professionals.

But the site isn't just for consuming drugs.

Users get access to clean needles, ventinal testing strips, and housing support, group therapy,

or a detox program, like the one India is trying to do.

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