San Francisco has provided a rare look inside what is, in effect, the city's first safe consumption site for drug users.
What opened as the Tenderloin Linkage Center in January has recently been renamed the Tenderloin Center. The city started with a six-month lease on the building in U.N. Plaza, a lease which now has been extended through the end of the year.
"When folks come into the space, they are able to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner," explained staff member Donna Hilliard."We have snacks, we have water.""We can let them know we have harm-reduction supplies," Hilliard said."But what we like to talk about a lot is the detox beds that are available." Staff say that more than 80 overdoses have been reversed here and they are still trying to get more people into treatment.
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