As opioid overdose deaths hit new record, pressure grows for safe places to inject drugs in Chicago

Cook County recorded more homicides last year than it had in decades, yet twice as many people died from opioid overdose, a rising epidemic that has a growing number of health experts pressing for safe spaces to inject drugs.

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