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>> reporter: liz evans directs the corner project. she moved here from vancouver, canada, where she helped found insight, the home of the only legal safe injection sites in north america. over 14 years, there have been over 3 million visits there and not one single death. the rates of overdose in the surrounding downtown area dropped by 35%. and insight users were 30% more likely to get addiction treatment. but here in the united states, that is a very gray area. how does a place like this exist in the sense of the interactions of the legal world, the law enforcement world? >> there are polici...

Visits there and not one single death. the deaths dropped by 30%, and insight users were more likely to get addiction treatment, but here in the united states this is a very gray area. >> how does a place like this exist in the sense of the interactions with the legal world and the law enforcement world? >> there are policies that exist that the state has provided to encourage access to narcan, clean surfaces, and other suggestions for how bathrooms operate in syringe exchange programs. >> hector manages the bathroom program. >> they will sit down and put all their supplies here to make sure t...

Surrounding downtown area dropped by 35%. inside users were 30% more likely to get addiction treatments. here in the united states, this is a gray area. >> how does a place like this exist in the sense of the interaction of the legal world, the law enforcement world? >> there are policies that exist the state has provided to encourage access to norican, clean services and other suggestions for how bathrooms operate in the exchange programs. >> hector mara manages the bathroom program. >> they'll sit down, they'll put all their supplies here to make sure they're preparing the cocaine or what ev...