A new report has revealed that some safe drug-use sites in major cities along the East Coast – organizations that could qualify for funding from the Biden Administration – do include pipes for smoking crack cocaine or methamphetamine in kits provided to addicts. The Washington Free Beacon has found that five sites in Boston, New York City, Baltimore, Washington D.C., and Richmond, Va. included the hard drug pipes – though it remains unclear if any have applied for or will receive funds from the administration’s $30 million Harm Reduction Program Grant that will be doled out later this month.The Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced the grant program in February, detailing that it provides funds for “required harm reduction activities that the money must be used for including the purchase of “equipment and supplies to enhance harm reduction efforts, such as … Safe smoking kits/supplies.”
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