New documentary makes the case for supervised heroin injection sites in New York

A new documentary is shedding light on the thousands of residents of New York state who inject heroin in public or semi-public places, with dire consequences for their health and their communities.

"Everywhere But Safe," which will premiere this week in Manhattan, features interviews with heroin users in New York City, Albany and Schenectady, as well as in Columbia County, a more rural area upstate. Most of the people interviewed in the film have at various times injected drugs in places like hallways, subways, alleyways, parks, parked cars, restaurant bathrooms, streets and other public areas, primarily due to homelessness.

This kind of public injection, as the film makes clear, can often create a public health emergency.

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