Somerville Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and Sarah Evans with Open Society Foundations join CommonWealth reporter Jennifer Smith to discuss the international landscape of safe consumption sites and Somerville’s proposal to be the first municipality in the state to allow supervised consumption.

To tackle the opioid crisis, Mass. considers safe consumption sites

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To tackle the opioid crisis, Mass. considers safe consumption sites

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