One way to reduce fatal overdose deaths could be to make safe injection more accessible. A bill introduced in the Illinois legislative session aims to reverse the devastating trend of the opioid epidemic by setting up state-licensed spaces where people could use drugs under supervision.

Reset checks in with advocates for the program and a legislator who introduced the bill.

GUESTS: Rep. La Shawn Ford (D-8th)

Lee Rusch, director, West Side Heroin Opioid Task Force

Tanya Sorrell, co-chair of the Illinois Harm Reduction & Recovery Coalition