PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia wants to establish safe havens where people can inject drugs, an effort to combat skyrocketing opioid overdoses in the city.
They would be places where people could shoot up under the supervision of medical professionals who could administer an overdose antidote if necessary.
But there are more questions than answers on how it would work and what it would look like, and if it could even legally get up and running.
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