AP News reports on South America’s only overdose prevention center, located in Bogata, Columbia and operated by non-profit Accion Tecnica Social.
As the article reports, “Sam Rivera, the executive-director of OnPoint, a nonprofit organization in New York City, toured the small, nearly 65-foot room with three patient cubicles before AP’s visit.
“I look at it as a mini version of what we’re doing,” Rivera said.
“I always tell people to come visit an overdose prevention center. When you hear about it, it sounds dangerous or it sounds bad because it sounds like you’re enabling people to use,” he added. “These are people who are going to use. So instead of using outside, in danger, leaving these supplies in the street, everything happens inside, everything stays inside.”