Individual tables stand ready to be used by drug addicts inside a safe injection site called Quai 9 near Geneva main train station October 14, 2010. Drug addicts can legaly used one of the13 centres across Switzerland, as part of a national strategy that started 20 years ago to combat rising drug use and the spread of the AIDS virus through shared use of dirty needles. France's National Assembly and Senate decided last September to form a parliamentary information mission on drugs that will, among other themes, debate on opening "injection rooms" in France. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH)
According to state records, the state struggles with more than 1,300 overdose deaths each year. State lawmakers are now looking at a possible solution: safe injection sites for drug users. We talked about the controversial option with the co-chair of the Legislature’s Public Health Committee, Rep. Cristin McCarthy Vahey.
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