Safe injection site
Supplies for drug users are seen at an overdose prevention center, at OnPoint NYC in New York, N.Y., Friday, Feb. 18, 2022. Seth Wenig/Associated Press
Safe injection site
Supplies for drug users are seen at an overdose prevention center, at OnPoint NYC in New York, N.Y., Friday, Feb. 18, 2022. Seth Wenig/Associated Press

One way to reduce fatal overdose deaths could be to make safe injection more accessible. A bill introduced in the Illinois legislative session aims to reverse the devastating trend of the opioid epidemic by setting up state-licensed spaces where people could use drugs under supervision.

Reset checks in with advocates for the program and a legislator who introduced the bill.

GUESTS: Rep. La Shawn Ford (D-8th)

Lee Rusch, director, West Side Heroin Opioid Task Force

Tanya Sorrell, co-chair of the Illinois Harm Reduction & Recovery Coalition

Safe injection site
Supplies for drug users are seen at an overdose prevention center, at OnPoint NYC in New York, N.Y., Friday, Feb. 18, 2022. Seth Wenig/Associated Press
Safe injection site
Supplies for drug users are seen at an overdose prevention center, at OnPoint NYC in New York, N.Y., Friday, Feb. 18, 2022. Seth Wenig/Associated Press

One way to reduce fatal overdose deaths could be to make safe injection more accessible. A bill introduced in the Illinois legislative session aims to reverse the devastating trend of the opioid epidemic by setting up state-licensed spaces where people could use drugs under supervision.

Reset checks in with advocates for the program and a legislator who introduced the bill.

GUESTS: Rep. La Shawn Ford (D-8th)

Lee Rusch, director, West Side Heroin Opioid Task Force

Tanya Sorrell, co-chair of the Illinois Harm Reduction & Recovery Coalition