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How opioid treatment centers can overcome bipartisan NIMBYism to build local support

  • Written by Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
How opioid treatment centers can overcome bipartisan NIMBYism to build local supportDemocrats and Republicans are equally less likely to support a drug treatment clinic if it's in their neighborhood. Can Merey/picture alliance via Getty Images

Some residents of Fairmount, an upper-middle-income neighborhood of Philadelphia, are irate that a nearby homeless shelter is being turned into an addiction “triage” center withou...

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