March 2, 2021 Advocates for addiction services rallied in Philadelphia on May 30, 2018 to show their support for harm-reduction policies and the opening of a safe injection site in the city's Kensington neighborhood. Joe Piette via Flickr Workers at Safehouse, a nonprofit hoping to begin serving people who use drugs in Philadelphia, know all too well the struggle in getting people on board with overdose prevention sites (OPS). After announcing last year that the city had cleared a path to open an overdose prevention site in the South Philadelphia area, backlash brewed. The site would be a place where injection-drug users could drop in to use heroin or other substances under medical supervision and potentially be administered Narcan (naloxone), an overdose reversal drug, if necessary. However, local residents rose up in a massive, furious protest, claiming that they had been blindsided—and Safehouse, overwhelmed, canceled its plans.