WTF!!! –
Oct. 2, 2023 – Safe inhalation spaces are integrated into New York City’s two authorized SCS, as will be the case with the state-authorized SCS set to open in Rhode Island in early 2024. But those services are almost never referenced by legislators or media.
Stimulants are frequently injected and opioids frequently smoked, but smoking and stimulants have long been paired in the public consciousness. The stigma levied against stimulant users is a unique barrier to inhalation sites, one that persists even with the proper ventilation permits and sufficient academic evidence. Methamphetamine-involved deaths are being disastrously blown out of proportion in US overdose data—a body of evidence for safer smoking sites that isn’t accurate, but that still hasn’t generated much interest in them.
