"People promoting the sites say similar facilities have helped cut HIV and disease rates..."    Let's look:  Dec 2016, The European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction stated:  "There is 1) insufficient evidence to support the effectiveness of drug consumption rooms in reducing HIV infections, 2) insufficient evidence to support the effectiveness of drug consumption rooms in reducing HCV infections.  (2016 Harm Reduction Interventions for Opioid Injectors Best Practices Portal.)  

Needle distribution is the most cost-effective and evidence-based HIV/HCV reduction method. 

Most ODs occur outside these facilities.  Here's the basic math:  69,000 injections in KC per day, only 500 would be supervised by a site.  These sites focus on urban areas, leaving suburbs without resources.  Only 4% passed through detox at InSite.  Speak Out Seattle asks the citizens of Redmond to dig deeper into the facts.  The goal should be recovery.  This is not the way to do it.