US EditionRow Erupts as German City Plans Safe Room for Crack Addicts
- A dispute arose in Frankfurt in 2025 over plans to open a new help centre near the main railway station for about 50 crack cocaine users.
- The city faces widespread crack use since the 1990s, now surpassing heroin, prompting officials to propose a centre despite local opposition.
- Existing consumption rooms in the Bahnhofsviertel provide sterile needles and spaces for injecting or smoking drugs without recorded overdoses onsite.
- Frankfurt reported 20 drug overdose deaths last year, down from a 1991 peak of 147, while public health officials emphasize the goal to "save lives."
- The controversy illustrates tensions between harm reduction efforts aiming to aid addicts and local resistance fearing increased drug tourism and open drug scenes.
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Row erupts as German city plans safe room for crack addicts
A battle has broken out over plans to open a new help centre for crack addicts near Frankfurt's main railway station, an area notorious for its bustling illegal drugs scene.
·Chariton, United States
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