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Philly supervised injection site is one step closer following federal ruling

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On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Gerald McHugh ruled that Safehouse, a nonprofit that plans to open an overdose prevention site (OPS) in Philadelphia, is not in violation of federal drug law, reaffirming his October 2019 decision.

In February 2019, U.S. Attorney William Mcswain filed suit claiming that a safe injection site violated a section of the Controlled Substances Act, called the “crack house statute.” The statute deems it illegal for a person to knowingly open or manage a location in

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