Once unthinkable in US, drug shoot-up rooms get serious look
By DAVID KLEPPER
Associated Press
Across
the United States, heroin users have died in alleys behind convenience
stores, on city sidewalks and in the bathrooms of fast-food joints -
because no one was around to save them when they overdosed.
An
alarming 47,000 American overdose deaths in 2014 - 60 percent from
heroin and related painkillers like fentanyl - has pushed elected
leaders from coast to coast to consider what was once nthinkable:
government-sanctioned sites where users can shoot up under the
supervision of a doctor or nurse who can administer an antidote if
necessary.
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