Please sign this petition and help us oppose Overdose Prevention Sites/Safe Injection Sites/ Comprehensive User Sites in Harrowgate and the City of Philadelphia. There is a group called the Safe House Group that will be opening an injection site on the 1800 block of Hilton St in Harrowgate. The residents of Harrowgate and the surrounding communities oppose this. The Mayor of Philadelphia, Jim Kenney, supports these sites opening in the city. 

They are also planning on opening sites in South Philadelphia and West Philadelphia as well. I have maps that I received from the Safe House Group with possible locations in South and West Philly. We oppose these sites because this will keep the vicious cycle of drug use and drug trafficking in our neighborhood. We have violent drug dealers who have killed children in our community and some children have been shot and have been lucky enough to survive but have been traumatized forever because of it. The drug users rob us by breaking into ours cars, homes and yards they constantly do this to support their addiction. They defecate on our pavements, in our parks and school yards. This site will not prevent any of that. 

The city has no public safety strategy for these sites. They have said just today, they are themselves concerned about safety issues with these sites. But they are still supporting them in opening and are going to use city money to put resources in these buildings for those with addiction. But still have no plan for the securing our neighborhood. Our community supports recovery, we work closely with programs in our neighborhood, we supported the opening of a respite center for those that were living under the bridges, we even recently asked them to open them up 24 hours a day so the people staying there could get off the freezing streets during the day not just at night. We have fed the drug users and clothed them at times and given Narcan out and used it. We have turned in the dealers that sell them the heroin, we have supported everything until this. Now we need support. 

Along with us, Councilman Squilla and Councilwoman Maria Sanchez oppose these sites. But Mayor Kenney is going to allow this to open and he has the power to stop it as well. Please sign our petition and stand with us against these sites.