Overview

• The US will fund a study on whether safe injection sites prevent overdoses.
• New York University and Brown University will conduct the study which will cost $5 million over 4 years.
• The study will enroll 1,000 adult drug users to assess the sites' effects on overdoses and estimate their costs.
• Supporters argue safe injection sites save lives while opponents worry they encourage drug use.
• The grant shows the Biden administration supports harm reduction approaches like safe injection sites.