全美首个合法过量预防中心开业近两年：服务约1500人，干预200多起过量
罗得岛州普罗维登斯县普罗维登斯市，罗得岛州2021年成为全美首个以法律形式允许设立有人监督用药场所的州，设在普罗维登斯的过量预防中心由此成为全美检验这一做法能否减少用药过量死亡的试验田。该中心由非营利组织 Project Weber/RENEW 运营，位于罗得岛医院附近 Willard 街一栋两层办公楼内，提供医疗监督，并转介治疗与社会服务。
据11月2日刊出的报道，自去年1月开业以来，中心已服务约1500人、接待逾12000人次，工作人员已干预200多起过量事件；这些数字为初步统计，独立研究人员仍在评估中心的效果。罗得岛州卫生部的数据显示，2025年全州意外用药过量死亡219人，比上一年下降逾33%；报道同时指出，全州死亡人数的下降在中心开业前已经开始，研究者尚未确认下降中有多少可归因于该中心。
州长过量问题工作组主任 Kathy Schultz 表示，中心通过阿片类药物和解金持续获得资助，目前资金可维持至2028财年；州政府今年已从和解金中拨付至少550万美元支持该中心，但2028年之后的长期资金方案尚未确定。中心副主任 Ashley Perry 说，多数到访者进门先喝咖啡，中心同时提供治疗转介与社会服务，而非仅提供用药场所。
（来源：Ocean State Media）
Nearly Two Years On, the First Legal Overdose Prevention Center in the U.S. Has Served About 1,500 People and Intervened in More Than 200 Overdoses
In Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, the state became the first in the nation in 2021 to legalize spaces where people can use drugs under the supervision of trained staff, and the overdose prevention center in Providence has become a national test case for whether the approach reduces overdose deaths. The center is run by the nonprofit Project Weber/RENEW from a two-story office building on Willard Street near Rhode Island Hospital, offering medical supervision and referrals to treatment and social services.
According to reporting published November 2, since opening in January of last year the center has served about 1,500 people across more than 12,000 visits, and staff have intervened in more than 200 overdoses. The figures are preliminary, and independent researchers are still evaluating the center's effectiveness. The Rhode Island Department of Health reports 219 accidental overdose deaths statewide in 2025, down more than 33% from the previous year; the reporting also notes the statewide decline began before the center opened, and researchers have not established how much of it, if any, is attributable to the facility.
Kathy Schultz, director of the Governor's Overdose Task Force, said the center continues to be funded through opioid settlement money, with funding in place through fiscal 2028; the state has committed at least $5.5 million in settlement funds to the center this year, but no long-term funding plan beyond 2028 has been confirmed. Deputy director Ashley Perry said most visitors first get coffee, and that the center provides treatment referrals and social services, not only a place to use.
(Source: Ocean State Media)
来源：Ocean State Media
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