The SIF debate: Lines drawn with Rosenstein op‐ed,but truth may lie in the middle

The federal Department of Justice is not going to allow supervised injection facilities (SIFs) to go forward, with Rod J. Rosenstein, deputy attorney general, drawing a clear line in the sand in an Aug. 27 op‐ed in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/opinion/opioids‐heroin‐injection‐sites.html ). “Advocates euphemistically call them ‘safe injection sites,’ but they are very dangerous and would only make the opioid crisis worse,” he wrote, calling them “B.Y.O.D.” facilities (for “bring your own drugs,” which they are). In SIFs, people can be revived by naloxone if they overdose; if they inject alone, which happens often, they can't.