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Columnist Heather Knight saw up close how New York City is tackling its drug crisis through supervised sites where workers reverse overdoses and connect people to treatment. Despite broad support for the idea here, San Francisco leaders are stalling on opening their own.

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>> reporter: both locations are in new york city. this one is in harlem, the other in washington heights. here users take illegal drugs with clean supplies without risk of arrest. to be clear, theyre not given illegal drugs. its where that use drugs that are already in their possession. >> when they first come through the door, were going to ask what theyre using and how theyre using it. >> reporter: its done under the supervision of these medical profes professionals. >> this is our injection e...

Jose Collado settled in at a clean white table in a sunlit room, sang a few bars and injected himself with heroin.

Two modest rooms in New York City are the first places in the United States where local officials are allowing illicit drug use to make it less deadly

Supporters see them as humane responses to a national surge in overdose deaths. Critics see them as illegal and defeatist.

Supporters say the sites — also known as safe injection sites or supervised consumption spaces — are humane, realistic responses to the deadliest drug crisis in U.S. history. Critics see them as illegal and defeatist answers to the harm that drugs wreak on users and communities.

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