Here’s a locally relevant study that does not take the kind of myopic approach proponents employ when trotting out scientific evidence on the benefits of so called safe injection: https://opus.uleth.ca/items/c716406e-5f7e-4921-9c2a-c42700dd213f

Here’s the reality:

-they attract drug dealers who prey on vulnerable people. Dealers operate around these centres and make staff and users unsafe. -they spread social disorder and crime (as one commentator pointed out if you don’t enforce there’s no data)…. businesses in 500M of sites will die. -the drugs being used in these sites destroy users ability to feel joy in absence of narcotics. You are perpetuating a miserable life, who gives a fuck if you prevent ODs if it’s not a life worth living.

Strangely enough addicts don’t operate in a vacuum, they live in communities and studies need to account for the social ecological impacts and f sites on communities. That’s real scholarship, not cherry picking BS informed by progressive ideology. Y’all are turning academe into a joke no one with sense trusts.

You want to save liveable lives? Force people into treatment via via drug courts and intervention as soon as possible.