“we’re not going to get beyond the opioid deaths until we get to safe consumption sites. There’s really no downside, except for people who see it as a moral failing and they’re morally outraged.”41 But the people who have recovered from addiction aren’t so sure. “How compassionate is it to let somebody just shoot dope the rest of their life?” asked Vicki. “If you hold people accountable, but you don’t give them an opportunity to change their life, that’s just punitive. But if you give them opportunities without holding them accountable, which is what we do now, that’s not going to work,
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