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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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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

NEW YORK (AP) — 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

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

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