Supreme Court urged to review ban on supervised injection sites
PHILADELPHIA – Supporters of a plan to open supervised injection sites to try to reduce overdose deaths urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to review a court decision that bans the practice. The test case centers on a nonprofit group’s Safehouse project in Philadelphia, but officials in other states are watching closely as they debate similar programs. Nationally, more than 93,000 people died last year from drug overdoses, a sharp spike from a year earlier. A divided U.S. appeals court had rejected the Safehouse plan in January.