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City of Brotherly Love needs tough love — not ‘safe’ drug use — to free it from scourge of tranq

City of Brotherly Love needs tough love — not ‘safe’ drug use — to free it from scourge of tranq

NY Post
Friday, April 12, 2024 11:11:54 AM UTC

Last week I described how easy it is to get the most lethal drugs on the streets of New York.

And how “safe-use” sites had become magnets for dealers and addicts.

Such sites are fought over. Do they help addicts use safely? Or do they normalize lethal behavior?

I went to the streets of another East Coast city to find out.

The first time I went to Philadelphia, some 20 years ago, the city was a proud place. Today it is not only crime-ridden, but drug-ridden.

And in one area in particular it is absolutely swimming in drugs and the misery and the almost unfathomable misery they bring in their wake.

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