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What it means for Seattle to get safe injection sites

caption: Shilo Murphy holds drug paraphernalia that his needle exchange supplies to users on an alley off the Ave.
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Shilo Murphy holds drug paraphernalia that his needle exchange supplies to users on an alley off the Ave.
KUOW Photo/Isolde Raftery

Kim Malcolm talks with Caleb Banta-Green, an opiate addiction expert and a member of the King County Heroin and Prescription Opiate Taskforce, about Seattle possibly becoming the first U.S. city to create a safe-consumption site for heroin users.

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