NEW: The first supervised consumption clinic in Mass. may be a portable unit in a parking lot. That’s one of the recommendations in an operations and location report, the latest step in Somerville’s bid to move this project forward. overdosecrisis
to open the first such clinic in Massachusetts, where people who inject, smoke or snort drugs would be monitored and given oxygen or naloxone to prevent a fatal overdose., prepared by Fenway Health, recommends the city begin with a large trailer, outfitted as a clinic, stationed in a city-owned parking lot. It would be open between 10 and 24 hours a day, depending on what the city could afford and would cost between $1.4 and $2.9 million a year.
The report includes two possible floor plans for the trailer, one that would occupy three parking spaces, another four. Seven or eight small cubicles for people who inject or sniff drugs line one wall. There’s a room for people who smoke, a clinic, a bathroom, space to check in and out and one or two meeting rooms.The layout of a trailer that spans four parking spots.
The report came out the same week the Massachusetts Legislature tabled bills that would have created a pilot program for supervised consumption clinics in Massachusetts and lifted some state licensing and liability concerns for clients and staff.“I’m committed to moving forward,” Ballantyne said. “This is a tool for harm reduction.
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