NH Docs Debate Safe Drug-Use Rooms in Hospitals – New Hampshire Union Leader

Read article - Quotes Tim Lahey, associate professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, who is encouraging health care professionals to consider a unique approach to helping patients by establishing safe drug-use rooms inside of hospitals. Safe injection rooms in hospitals would not be his first option, but Lahey said it should be explored further—a view not shared by some New Hampshire health experts. "I think the evidence is clear that safe injection facilities improve outcomes in people with addiction, and do not have the harms that people imagine," said Lahey. "I encourage these debates so that we can weigh the pros and cons."