Recently I attended a Pierce County Council meeting to hear their discussion of a proposal made by two members to ban safe consumption sites (SCS) before they’re even considered as an option in fighting the opiate crisis. It was disheartening to hear Pierce County Council member Pam Roach share a great deal of misinformation that […]
People are panicked, and for good reason: Drug-use deaths killed 332 residents of King County last year. Safe consumption sites—legal establishments where drug users are permitted to consume drugs under medical supervision—are proven to reduce harm from drug use, including overdose deaths. But, if voters approve Initiative 27, the ballot measure circulated by the group Safe King County, these sites […]
For all the public discussion about the opioid crisis in the last several years, we should have made a far greater impact in American lives. But approaches to this epidemic are likely to lead to more deaths because of a cultural legacy of oversimplified and incomplete thinking about drugs and users. What we assume about […]