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A federal appeals court rejects plans for a supervised injection site in Philly

“Congress has made it a crime to open a property to others to use drugs,” wrote Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas. “And that is what Safehouse will do.”

Ronda Goldfein, executive director of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania and vice president of Safehouse, speaks with Jose Benitez, executive director of Prevention Point and Safehouse's president at a 2019 meeting of the Harrowgate Civic Association at the Heitzman Recreation Center.
Ronda Goldfein, executive director of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania and vice president of Safehouse, speaks with Jose Benitez, executive director of Prevention Point and Safehouse's president at a 2019 meeting of the Harrowgate Civic Association at the Heitzman Recreation Center.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer