5 important stories you may have missed
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These days, it’s hard to stop news from Washington, D.C., from flooding your news feed. We take a moment every week to bring you important stories beyond the White House and the Capitol. Here’s what we’re reading now.
1. New York City becomes the fourth city in the U.S. to announce plans for safe injection sites
A visitor to the Harvard School of Public Health’s mock safe injection site checks out the items on the demonstration table set up underneath a tent on the quad near the medical school in Boston. Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images.
Last week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city will develop plans to open up to four safe injection sites for heroin users. Supporters say the sites decrease overdoses because there are staff with naloxone, which helps reverse the effects of an overdose, and that they also reduce diseases spread through sharing needles, because users can discard used needles and access new, clean ones. Though there are no legally operating safe injection sites in the U.S., Seattle, Philadelphia, and San Francisco have also pressed for sites in their cities. [Buzzfeed News]
Why it matters: In a speech, de Blasio said the opioid epidemic kills more people in New York City than car crashes and homicides combined. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, an average of 116 people died per day from an opioid overdose in 2016, and last summer, President Donald Trump declared the crisis a national emergency.
Though political leaders across party lines agree there needs to be a solution, they disagree on the details. The Trump administration’s approach has emphasized law enforcement measures, headed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ crackdown on illegal drugs crossing the border. …
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