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Helped you win election is your outspokenness on behalf of homeless people and i want to ask you about the oip yoi opioi. seattle is trying to be the first u.s. city to open supervised injection sites where users can shoot up legally. you back those centers. tell us why. >> those have been tried across the country -- not in canada but other places in the world, switzerland, germany, europe, they're a harm reduction place. we can make sure someone is there to make sure there's a safe place for people to go that it's a next step from really needle exchanges but its gives us the ability to connec...

The best places for him to receive treatment, in jail. the life of a heroin addict and the use of the consumption rooms, how they work and what benefit they might provide. >> you and i have talked about it a bunch, you go on the streets and see people use and how they die, and it makes sense until you balance it against resistance and addiction, where they see it as enabling and weakness of character and defies the reality. >> if saving lives the priority, as provocative as it could be, places like consumption rooms having narcan available, and clean needle exchanges, and all those things save...

By many conservatives, governor pence made a seemingly progressive move authorizing a needle exchange program in rural indiana. an issue that's more often championed by democrats. >> i do not support needle exchanges antidrug policy but this is a public health emergency. >> it's an effort to halt the hiv outbreak that's plaguing southeastern indiana. according to the governor, the area typically sees five new cases of the virus each year but officials report that since december, as many as 81 people have been diagnosed with hiv and all of those cases have been linked to iv drug use. the drug o...

Prevention program. >> it was targeted for high-risk injection drug users. we soon started learning about parents going to needle exchanges. >> today, they distribute the product to addicts, first responders, and learn to cope, a support group for parents of addicts. linda has been going to learn to cope meetings for the past nine years. >> nasal narcan, the overdose reversal drug is available at every meeting. if you're in this room, you should have narcan. >> they have distributed hundreds of kits to its members who have managed to reverse at least nine overdoses. >> tinging of the lips, fin...

Injection drug users. we started to hear about parents going to needle exchanges. >> and first responders and learn to cope, it's a support group for parents of addicts. linda has been learning to cope meetings for the last five years. >> the overdose reversal antidote is available weekly at all meetings. if you are in this room, you should have tphaur cam. >> they have managed to reverse at least nine overdoses. >> changing of the lips, fingernails, if you can't arouse them -- >> it's ready to administer. it will go up one nostril. >> it's one of those things you can't believe that you are si...