san francisco, in early february, became the first city in the u.s. to implement supervised consumption services (scs). this historic victory, unanimously supported by the san francisco health commission, allows the city to begin offering services this july.
supervised consumption services are legally sanctioned facilities proven to reduce the personal risks and public health issues associated with intravenous drug use. these facilities already exist in australia, canada and europe, and, with great success.
participants in these facilities will have access to sterile injecting equipment, counseling, health care, and referrals to health and social services. the bold measures are expected to reduce overdose deaths, save lives and keep city neighborhoods cleaner.
cities who currently host the 120 active scs around the world have witnessed a dramatic reduction in street-based drug use and syringe disposal, as well as increasingly lower hiv-positive and hepatitis transmission rates.
i am
- mark j. tuggle
- harlem, usa
- same-gender-loving contemporary descendant of enslaved africans. community activist, feminist, health educator, independent filmmaker, mentor, playwright, poet & spiritual being. featured at, in & on africana.com, afrikan poetry theatre, angel herald, bejata dot com, bet tonight with tavis smiley, blacklight online, black noir, brooklyn moon cafe, gmhc's barbershop, klmo-fm, lgbt community services center, longmoor productions, nuyorican poets cafe, our corner, poz, pulse, rolling out new york, rush arts gallery, saint veronica's church, schomburg center for research in black culture, sexplorations, the citizen, the new york times, the soundz bar, the trenton times, the village voice, upn news, uzuri, venus, vibe, wbai-fm, wnyc-fm & wqht-fm. volunteered with adodi, bailey house, inc., black men's xchange-new york, colorofchange.org, drug policy alliance, east harlem tutorial program, imagenation film & music festival, presente.org, save darfur coalition, the enough project, the osborne association, the sledge group & your black world. worked on films with maurice jamal & heather murphy. writing student of phil bertelsen & ed bullins. mjt975@msn.com.
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