Earlier in 2016, Svante Myrick, the then-29-year-old mayor of Ithaca, New York, proposed a radical plan to deal with the town’s growing heroin epidemic that even surprised him a little: The city of 30,000 would be the first in the U.S. to provide a safe space for addicts to shoot up legally and under professional … Continue reading Innovation and Local Government: Giving Addicts a Safe Space