Unsafe at Any Site
A look back at Safehouse s planned supervised injection site and the U.S. attorney who helped thwart it
“The Safehouse injection site may be safe for drug addicts,” I remember a South Philly protester saying to me last February at a street protest in South Philadelphia – “But it sure as hell isn’t safe for the neighborhood.”
Thousands of South Philadelphians gathered in front of the Constitution Health Plaza at Broad and McKean streets to show their outrage that the Safehouse supervised injection site was scheduled to be opened there without their prior knowledge or consultation. The building houses medical offices as well as a children’s day care center.
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With a decision Tuesday, the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals has brought to a screeching if hopefully temporary halt for efforts to establish a groundbreaking permitted safer injection facility in the city of Philadelphia. In the case of US v. Safehouse, the nonprofit group set to run the site, the court held that allowing the supervised onsite consumption of illegal drugs will break the law because it conflicts with a 35-year-old amendment to the Controlled Substances Act aimed at crack houses.
The Vancouver safer injection site. We still can t have those in America. Yet. (vcha.ca)Never mind that the city is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic and needs to try something new after decades of failed prohibitionist drug policies. The sanctity of the drugs laws must be maintained, the court held: Though the opioid crisis may call for innovative solutions, local innovations may not break federal law, it opined.