A new study published this month has found that New York City’s historic safe consumption centers have helped reduce overdoses.
The study, conducted by researchers affiliated with the NYC Department of Health (which oversees the sites), covered the two months of the program across two different consumption sites.
Last November, then-New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced “that the first publicly recognized Overdose Prevention Center (OPC) services in the nation have commenced in New York City.”
OPCs, the city explained in the announcement, “are safe places where people who use drugs can receive medical care and be connected to treatment
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