Colorado and “safe injection sites” for drug addicts illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington TimesColorado is one step closer to becoming the second state in the nation to legalize “supervised drug consumption” sites, also known as safe injection sites or overdose prevention sites, as labeled in Colorado’s House Bill 24-1028.
While persistence may be on their side, the facts, when thoroughly considered, are not in the proponents’ corner. In Vancouver, where the normalization of such behavior over 20 years is likely to have had some effect, deaths due to illicit drug toxicity have risen by 840% since its first site opened in 2004. Heroin possession and trafficking incidents increased by nearly 170% from 2004 to 2018.
Further, legislators should evaluate the impact on the surrounding neighborhoods. The neighbors of the sites in Harlem reported an uprising of drug markets where dealers have unlimited access to customers. At the same time, Harlem’s children are forced to navigate used syringes along their sidewalks. San Francisco neighbors endured a similar experience, which led to the city shutting down the site within one year of operations.
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