We are in the depths of a drug crisis. Twelve hundred people and counting have died from overdoses this year in King County. There’s one solution the Seattle area hasn’t adopted, even though it has a track record of saving lives and other benefits: Safe consumption sites.

Seattle Times reporter Greg Kim tells us about these sites and the locals trying to open them here.

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