SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) — Some Seattle City Council members are pushing to arrange injection sites.
The Seattle Times reported Wednesday that the new proposal in the city’s 2021 budget would allow drug use under medical supervision and with access to overdose-preventing medication at existing social service and health care locations.
The plan would transfer $1.4 million to the city’s Human Services Department that the city had previously set aside to build a supervised drug use site.
The department would then work with Public Health – Seattle & King County to contract with nonprofits to provide the service at their facilities.