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Signs of progress emerge in quest to introduce safe consumption sites
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32779
Subject(s) - consumption (sociology) , optimism , opioid overdose , business , opioid , medicine , public relations , political science , psychology , sociology , social psychology , social science , (+) naloxone , receptor
“One step forward, two steps back” has defined the effort to gain the go‐ahead to establish a safe consumption site for injection drug users in the United States. But developments in the courts and the research community in recent weeks have reinforced a sense of cautious optimism among those who see safe consumption spaces as a sound and essential public health response to the opioid overdose crisis.