Pennsylvania incoming governor Josh Shapiro said Tuesday that he remains opposed to efforts to open a place in Philadelphia where people with addiction can use drugs under medical supervision, a day after the federal government asked for more time to respond to a lawsuit over a proposed supervised injection site in the city.
Shapiro, who spoke at the Bloomberg American Health Summit, told an audience at the Loews Hotel that he was committed to working on public health issues like violence, the environment and drug addiction. Philadelphia has one of the worst big-city overdose crises in the country: a record 1,276 people died of overdoses in Philadelphia in 2021.
Asked by The Inquirer after his public remarks about his views on supervised injection sites, he said that he has been “clear in my opposition to them.”
