Overdose Prevention Center coming to Providence - Community discussion event 4/6 @ 6PM!

Submitted by idharamsi t3_11w1i8e in providence

Join members of the People, Place, & Health Collective at the Brown University School of Public Health and Project Weber/RENEW for a community conversation about the overdose prevention center coming to Providence soon! Members of the public are welcome, and light refreshments will follow the event. There will be an opportunity for Q&A. The event is April 6 from 6 - 7:30 PM!

Sign up (free, of course) and view the location on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-conversation-learning-about-an-overdose-prevention-center-in-ri-tickets-575024703367

For some context: Providence is going to be getting only the third overdose prevention center / safe injection site / harm reduction center in the US later this year! An overdose prevention center is a safe place where people can go to use drugs they have obtained elsewhere. Staff monitor for overdoses and provide pathways to care.

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ComradeSalothSar t1_jcw3kcs wrote

Love it! Safe injection sites have been a roaring success in San Francisco. If we want to be a world class city we have to start acting like one.

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Acceptable_Owl7906 t1_jcy7mvy wrote

SF opened one temporary site last year and it shut down. Tons of people with nowhere to go and no plan. They are still working on public and private funding for OPS there.

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400dollars4what t1_jd34x20 wrote

I'm so happy we're getting a harm reduction center!

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