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Your whole brain reward system gets hijacked. your prefrontal cortex is taken out of the loop. and you'll do anything. >> what do you think about safe injection sites? obviously senator graham does it seem to support them. >> i mean, back in medical school in the 70s, the idea of methadone seemed like a wild idea. but slowly, it became accepted. and medicaid does this treatment. i had an issue with that at one point. now it fully accepted. i think we have to talk about all of those things. >> sam rivera runs a safe injection site. sam, talk a bit about what you do there? >> sure, first of all,...

And dopesickness is absolutely miserable. and what happens? your whole brain reward system gets hijacked. your prefrontal cortex is taken out of the loop. and you'll do anything. >> what do you think about safe injection sites? obviously, senator graham does it seem to support them. >> i mean, back in medical school in the 70s, the idea of methadone seemed like a wild idea. but slowly, it became accepted. and medicaid does this treatment. i had an issue with that at one point. now it fully accepted. i think we have to talk about all of those things. >> sam rivera runs a safe injection site. sa...

People living near a safe injection site in East Harlem say there has been a dramatic increase in open drug use around the facility.

Advocates say they hope to see the money spent on evidence-based treatment options, including overdose prevention centers.