US government to pay for study to monitor effects of safe injection sites

The United States government is funding a study of so-called safe injection sites. The studies will be conducted at two different sites in Rhode Island and New York.

Investigative journalist Leighton Woodhouse discusses safe injection sites and America's drug crisis on 'Jesse Watters Primetime.'

For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether overdoses can be prevented by so-called safe injection sites, places where people can use heroin and other illegal drugs and be revived if they take too much. The universities announced the grant Monday. The money will not be used to operate the sites, the universities said.

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