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Broome County Health Department officials are sounding the alarm over the number of drug overdoses so far this year.

Something that is of great debate at the moment. "the new york times" writing, that president biden is the first to embrace harm reduction, praised by addiction experts as a way to keep drug users alive while providing access to treatment and support. what is your stance on harm reduction? and it would be one example would be needle exchanges. >> we know from the science that harm reduction practices save lives. and harm reduction practices can be seen as continuum of care. not everyone is ready to go into treatment, which is the idea. the idea is recovery. but if we just aim for the ideal, th...

Time part of its federal policy. >> people will say, look, you're enabling drug use. that's the provocation. >> as a physician that has spent his career dealing with science and moving data around, we just do not have that evidence. >> new york just opened up their first sanctioned safe injection site. places where people can go to use safely. is that something you would support, or do you think we'll see that more widely in the united states? >> i would be interested in looking at the science and data behind any and all of the harm reduction practices. we want to learn and make sure that ever...