Justice

Could Supervised Injections Help San Francisco's Homeless Drug Users?

Cities across the U.S. are pondering legalized, sterile street-drug injection sites to fight the overdose epidemic.
A man shoots heroin he bought on the street at Insite, a supervised-injection facility in Vancouver, B.C.The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck/AP

A 35-year-old man with a history of mental illness found cold on the sidewalk.

A 38-year-old man cocooned in a blanket on the street, who neighbors heard “moaning” before going silent.