An associate professor at Johns Hopkins University focusing on bioethics.
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“Johns Hopkins bioethicist Travis Rieder argues that support for places like OnPoint will never be decided solely by the empirical data. ‘I don’t actually think it’s why anyone believes what they believe… They have a view about what we should actually be helping people to do or not do, and then they find the evidence that best supports their view… Here’s what an overdose prevention site does: It says, ‘You are welcome here, and I will watch over you so that you don’t die today, and you’re worth that. You deserve that because you’re a human being and you have dignity.’ And I think that’s a really beautiful thing.‘”