Tug of war over drug user sites

ADVOCATES PUSHED Gov. Cuomo to allow the city to open supervised sites for drug users to inject heroin Wednesday — as a state pol moved to block the centers from opening.

The battle shifted to the state level after Mayor de Blasio endorsed a plan to open four privately run supervised injection sites in the city.

The sites — meant to cut down on overdose deaths — do not exist anywhere in the United States and violate federal law, though they have opened in cities around the world. De Blasio says he’ll go forward if he gets the OK from Cuomo’s health commissioner, Howard Zucker. Cuomo’s office said it’s under review.

Protesters at Cuomo’s Manhattan office urged him to sign off, holding signs saying, “Gov. Cuomo, while you wait New Yorkers die of preventable overdoses.”

Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island) wrote to Zucker asking him to block the plan, arguing it will “signal to users that addiction is a manageable condition and you can partake in illegal opioid use nearly risk-free.”