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RIP Clarita: a fixture for years outside the old site of El Campamento. I had heard a rumor she’d been gunned down by a rival gang. Had to go see for myself today. My heart aches

Watch “The Site,” a moving documentary about one brave group’s fight to save lives during the peak of the overdose epidemic. In 2018, following a record year of more than 1200 drug-related deaths in Philadelphia, Safehouse had a plan: Copy evidence-based practices from other countries and build the nations first supervised consumption facility. But even an early victory in federal court wouldn’t be enough to break the wall of stigma around drug use needed to make the site a reality. Five years in the making, The Site is a must-see portrait of a community in crisis looking for solutions just out of reach. Six years later and is still waging a legal battle to provide basic medical care to Philadelphia’s most marginalized citizens, and more than 6300 people have died of opioid overdoses that could have been prevented. With a new administration in Washington threatening to roll back gains made in New York, there was never a better time to watch this film and learn just how high the stakes are. https://narcomedia.org/the-site