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Safe Injection Facilities, Timothy Kwong
Safe Injection Facilities, Timothy Kwong
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According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “In 2016, a total of 63,632 persons in the United States died from drug overdoses; the age-adjusted rate was 19.8 deaths per 100,000 persons.” There have been countless programs with the sole purpose of reducing the amount of drug related deaths. Some with positive outcomes and others with negative outcomes. Since there is no feasible method of eradicating the problem as a whole, the next logical thing to do would to be creating effect prevention programs.
Safe Injection Facilities (SIFs) have been around for over three decades. They are widespread …