Editorial: New York City is saving people from drug overdose deaths. Why can’t California?
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Dec 09, 2021
2 minutes
For years officials in U.S. cities hit hard by the opioid epidemic — San Francisco, Philadelphia and Boston, to name a few — have been trying to open facilities where addicts could safely self-administer their illicitly obtained substances without the fear of overdosing or of being arrested.
These efforts have been stymied by a combination of misplaced fear from locals about “drug dens” and the heavy hand of the federal
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