Daily News | Philly City Council members move to ban supervised injection sites in about half the city
of councilmanic prerogative, or the practice in which district council members have near-total control over land-use decisions in their districts.The 1st District, which is represented by Majority Whip Mark Squilla and stretches from South Philadelphia to Fishtown along the Delaware River.who is vying to become the next Council presidentThe 6th District, which is represented by Councilmember Mike Driscoll, a Democrat, and includes parts of the Riverwards and Northeast Philadelphia.
The 10th District, which is represented by Councilmember Brian O’Neill, a Republican, and includes much of Northeast Philadelphia.in the Democratic primary, said a supervised injection site in his district could attract “a new open air drug market,” saying “you fish where the fish are.”Council’s move comes less than two weeks after a bipartisan majority of Pennsylvania senatorsstatewide.
Supervised injection sites, or supervised consumption sites, are spaces where people can use their own drugs under clinical supervision to prevent overdoses. Using drugs by oneself is a leading risk factor for fatal overdose — most overdose deaths in Philadelphia, for example, occur in private homes.
Such sites do not provide drugs to clients; instead, site staff test drugs, provide sterile needles and other equipment for safer drug use, and monitor clients in case they exhibit overdose symptoms. If they do overdose, site staff will revive them, with either supplemental oxygen or the opioid overdose-reversing drug naloxone.
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