To Combat the Opioid Epidemic, Cities Ponder Facilities for Drug Use

Quetcy M. Lozada, a first-term Philadelphia City Council member, stood on a September evening near an elementary school just off Kensington Avenue, the epicenter of a sprawling fentanyl market in a city that saw a record 1,413 drug overdose deaths last year.Just a block away, the street and sidewalks were dotted with used syringes and…