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A nonprofit said it had stopped 1,000 overdoses. Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor said he was eyeing its methods, which are against the law.

Two sites in New York have saved hundreds of lives, but stigma and lack of buy-in from the governor might prevent expansion.

Rhode Island officials recently announced the proposed location of a place where people could safely use illegal drugs under the watch of staff trained to reverse overdoses. But in Pennsylvania, the state Senate just voted to ban such centers, six days after Colorado lawmakers killed a bill that would have authorized them.

Since last November, New York’s sites together have served more than 2,100 people using drugs nearly 50,000 times. No one has died there.

The case for harm reduction.