Nation’s first supervised injection site may have a location

Philadelphia is one step closer to being the location of the nation’s first supervised injection site. Safehouse, the nonprofit that hopes to provide the space for people to use illegal drugs under the careful supervision of medical professionals, says it's in negotiations to rent a space in the city’s Kensington neighborhood, known as the center of the city’s opioid crisis. Philadelphia has the highest opioid death rate of any major U.S. city. But the road isn’t yet clear: Just last month, a federal prosecutor in the city filed a lawsuit to stop Safehouse from opening a site. And the Justice Department has previously said it would crack down on any city that opens such a facility.