Governor-elect Josh Shapiro has recently reiterated his opposition to supervised injection sites. 'As a doctor who specializes in addiction,' writes JamesRLatronica, 'this is a huge missed opportunity.'
To date, across the world and across decades, there are
. This is an absolutely astonishing figure and a testament to the care and compassion of the folks who operate these sites.already reversed hundreds of overdoseswho was not absent at the dinner table last week at Christmas, their life extinguished by an eminently preventable calamity. Ultimately, we have two choices. We can continue to march to the drumbeat of war and allow the thundering forces of dehumanization to drive our policymaking, or we can recognize the generations of chronic miscalculation which have led us to this dark moment and forge a brighter, healthier, and more humane path forward together.
I urge Gov.-elect Shapiro, his new administration, and legislators and policymakers across the commonwealth to embrace the evidence-based tools we have. One day I hope that we can look back on this grim chapter of our history with solemn remembrance, but also stark determination — determination to never again simply bear witness to suffering, but to rectify our mistakes and ameliorate it.
James R. Latronica is an addiction specialist physician and public policy chair of the Pennsylvania Society of Addiction Medicine based in Pittsburgh.
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