Inside the NYC supervised drug-use sites focusing on harm reduction
A 5-year-old experiment sanctioned by the city of New York, but not by the federal government, provide supervised sites for drug users. The goal is to reduce overdose deaths and street drug use, but some critics still have doubts about the process. CBS News' Anna Schecter reports.
The ‘harm reduction’ model failed to stop drugs in San Francisco
In San Francisco, the so-called “harm-reduction” method of dealing with drug addiction is on the way out — and thank goodness. The lenient approach, which coddled drug addicts, only made the problem worse. The National Harm Reduction Coalition defines “harm reduction” as “reducing negative consequences associated with