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Drug Talk Q&A with Dr. Julie Holland

PSYCHOACTIVE

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Is There a Supervised Injection Facility?

I support the idea of supervised injection facilities, and i definitely love this idea of what housing. It is, harm reduction at its finest. You're really reducing medical harm, social harm. High dose alcohol is associated with violence, with homicide and with suicide which is something that we don't talk about very much. Suicide is a leading cause. It's one of the causes of death in america. And you can overdose on alcohol. So anything where you're supervised,. where you're educated, where you're supported, you're going to end up safer. The pain of isolation sometimes drives unhealthy choices around alcohol and other drugs.

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