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3 months agoRhode Island is opening the nation's overdose prevention center. Could Massachusetts be next?
Rhode Island will open the country's first state-regulated overdose prevention center this summer.
The center will provide supervised drug use, overdose prevention, and support services.
Overdose prevention centers are controversial and illegal on a federal level, but Rhode Island's center will have a two-year pilot funded by opioid settlement funds. [ more ]