The controversy surrounding the potential opening of safe injection sites in Philadelphia is once again heating up. Mayor Kenney has continued to lend his support to the efforts and protests are also planned.
to open such a site last year. Officials there say the site has already stopped more than 100 overdoses.
"I know people are frightened by it, but they don’t understand the fact that people are overdosing in their basements, overdosing in alleyways, overdosing in lots of places where we can’t save them," Kenney said. "While I believe that it is understandable that people don’t understand what this is about – what it’s about is people who are addicted who are injecting heroin, and could die. We could get them in a place where we can council them, help them stay alive.
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