As opioid epidemic rages on, supervised injection sites still at a stalemate

Supervised injection sites were at one time seemingly coming to New York. As the opioid epidemic rages on, the prospect is at a standstill.Often overlooked during the pandemic has been the nation’s other health crisis: the opioid epidemic. But more than 95,000 Americans died of drug overdoses over the 12-month period that ended in February, according to the latest federal data available, eclipsing the toll from any year since the opioid epidemic began in the 1990s.…