Blue cities rethink liberal drug policies

Axios - Blue cities that have taken the most progressive — and often controversial — steps to tackle the nation's drug crisis are beginning to question those strategies amid rising political backlash.  Public health experts emphasize policies that prioritize saving the lives of drug users — like so-called safe injection sites — but the worsening fentanyl problem is testing the patience of even the seemingly most tolerant cities.The Philadelphia City Council appears ready to override the mayor's veto of its ban on supervised consumption sites where people can take drugs under the watch of health workers. San Francisco Mayor London Breed proposed drug testing for welfare recipients this week.These cities are among those that embraced "harm reduction" measures, which attempt to thwart the harms of drug use rather than punish it..