US EditionEditorial: Lowell not willing to become a safe injection guinea pig
Lowell councilors cited public safety concerns and service burdens, noting the city collects roughly 17,000 discarded needles annually, ahead of state legislation on safe injection sites.
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Editorial: Lowell not willing to become a safe injection guinea pig
A preemptive strike. That’s what the Lowell City Council accomplished in overwhelmingly voting last week to prohibit safe injection sites ahead of proposed bills in the Legislature that would allow such facilities in Massachusetts. State law currently doesn’t allow the clinically supervised use of illicit drugs from opening anywhere in the state. More importantly, that also reflects the position of the federal government, which state lawmakers a…
Editorial: Lowell not willing to become a safe injection guinea pig
A preemptive strike. That’s what the Lowell City Council accomplished in overwhelmingly voting last week to prohibit safe injection sites ahead of proposed bills in the Legislature that would allow such facilities in Massachusetts. State law currently doesn’t allow the clinically supervised use of illicit drugs from opening anywhere in the state. More importantly, that also reflects the position of the federal government, which state lawmakers a…
Editorial: Lowell not willing to become a safe injection guinea pig
A preemptive strike. That’s what the Lowell City Council accomplished in overwhelmingly voting last week to prohibit safe injection sites ahead of proposed bills in the Legislature that would allow such facilities in Massachusetts. State law currently doesn’t allow the clinically supervised use of illicit drugs from opening anywhere in the state. More importantly, that also reflects the position of the federal government, which state lawmakers a…
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