Plan Would Allow Supervised Drug Use To Prevent Overdose Deaths

DENVER (CBS4) – Denver City Council President Albus Brooks put his full support behind a proposal to create a supervised injection facility in Denver, where intravenous drug users could “shoot up” under medical supervision.
Albus Brooks (credit: CBS)
Last year, 174 people in the City and County of Denver died from drug overdoses. The goal of the supervised injection facility would be to reduce the number of preventable deaths, from heroin and other drugs, by having medical pers