Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Heroin abuse in the U.S. has increased to what the Obama Administration has called epidemic levels.
According to the American Society of Addictive Medicine, around 30,000 people died from lethal drug overdoses of heroin or related opioid painkillers in 2014
To cut down on these deaths, some states are looking at one very controversial idea: drug-shoot up centers.
David Klepper is a reporter with the Associated Press and has been writing about this, he joined the show to discuss the issue.
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