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Letter to the Editor

To the editor: San Francisco is planning to open up the first safe injection site in the US in the summer. While the idea of having a place for addicts to shoot up without consequence is a scary thought, that is our reality. In San Francisco, needles and homeless are an inseparable and common sight. What we're doing now isn't working and the more policing of heroin users only exacerbates the problem. We might as well have a centralized area for people to receive medical attention rather than having them partake on the streets. And if the safe injection locations fails, San Francisco is already hated by the Trump administration anyways.

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