Key Highlights
- While cities including San Francisco and Seattle have previously adopted policies to distribute "safer" drug supplies like clean foil and pipes that could be used to smoke fentanyl or other substances, these cities are now implementing a new approach that imposes new limitations on the distribution of these supplies.
- Seattle’s City Council passed its 2026 budget in November and included a provision that will "preclude any City support for the purchase or distribution of supplies for the consumption of illegal drugs, with the exception of needles." The provision was championed by City Council Member Sara Nelson, who said that while she supports needle exchange programs because they reduce the spread of diseases like HIV and Hepatitis C, she said she doesn’t see the benefit in using public resources to "help people get high" by distributing certain drug supplies.
- Several packages containing drugs, possibly laced with fentanyl, displayed on a bed.
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- District Court of Rhode Island) BLUE CITY DA SAYS REPEAT DRUG OFFENDERS 'WILL NOT RESPECT THE LAW' UNDER CURRENT SYSTEM "I fail to see, however, the harm that’s being reduced by distributing supplies such as pipes and foil that are used to consume deadly drugs like meth and fentanyl," Nelson said during a Nov.
