TY - JOUR T1 - Philadelphia battles courts to create safe injection site to stem overdoses JF - The Nation's Health JO - Nations Health SP - 28 LP - 28 VL - 49 IS - 10 AU - Melanie Padgett Powers Y1 - 2020/01/01 UR - http://www.thenationshealth.org/content/49/10/28.1.abstract N2 - Philadelphia may become the first city in the country with a safe injection site. A local nonprofit known as Safehouse is working to open a facility where residents will be able to use illicit drugs under medical supervision. The concept is not new: Switzerland opened the first such facility 30 years ago, according to Safehouse. Now, more than 120 sites are open in Europe, Australia and Canada. ER -