{"id":23415,"date":"2018-07-06T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmond-reporter.com\/news\/safe-consumption-part-3-the-opposite-of-addiction\/"},"modified":"2018-07-06T14:39:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T21:39:12","slug":"safe-consumption-part-3-the-opposite-of-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redmond-reporter.com\/news\/safe-consumption-part-3-the-opposite-of-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe consumption part 3: The opposite of addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Seattle moves forward with piloting its first supervised consumption site — now likely to be housed in a mobile van, not a building — the fierce debate roars on.<\/p>\n

Although many people on both sides of the issue are saying the exact same thing, if you listen for a while, there’s a fundamental difference that emerges. And it has everything to do with the definition of “success.”<\/p>\n

This week, in the final episode of our three-part series<\/a> on supervised consumption sites, we hear from family members who’ve lost loved ones to substance use, and explore perhaps the biggest rift of all between people who support the sites and people who don’t.<\/p>\n