BREAKING Pennsylvania's state Senate on Monday approved legislation to ban so-called supervised injection sites. The bill now goes to the House.
The bill passed Monday, 41-9, with every Republican in favor and nine of 22 Democrats against it. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Christine Tartaglione, says she supports recovery efforts, but not what she called “programs that perpetuate addiction without a path to recovery.”
Pennsylvania's state Senate on Monday approved legislation to ban so-called supervised injection sites, after Philadelphia became the center of a legal battle over opening safe havens where opioid users could legally inject heroin and other drugs under supervision as a way to reduce overdoses.The bill's sponsor, Sen.
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