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Year-End Support

Keep your favorite KBCS programs going strong in the new year. Include KBCS in your year-end giving plans by making a tax-deductible donation today, and thank you in advance.

$140,000 Goal

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Drive ends: December 31, 2023

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Safe Heroin Injection Sites

The debate over safe injection sites in King County is a hot topic. The model for such sites is Insite.  The first such site in North America, it’s located in Vancouver, British Columbia and offers a room with harm reduction supplies and staff who know how to resuscitate people after an overdose.

The podcast, Cited, dives into the story of another type of service,  Vancouver Canada’s Crosstown Clinic.  Here people are actually given government funded, prescription heroin.  Thousands of people visit supervised injection facilities.  The patients at Crosstown are part of a much smaller club.

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