In U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen's first six months in Congress, she's sponsored or signed on to more than a half-dozen bills focused on drug policy, fentanyl, harm reduction and drug treatment.
The crisis has quickly morphed into a political issue: Fentanyl was a frequent conservative attack line during last year’s election, and the Republican National Committee has already begun issuing statements knocking Pettersen’s fellow freshman, Democratic U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo, for previous votes on substance use.
But she was also skeptical, Pettersen said, of pursuing supervised drug-use sites, a key objective of harm reduction advocates and many public health officials . “We lose so many people , and it’s weaponized politically, and it stigmatizes people even more,” Pettersen said of the debate around safe-use sites, during a Monday interview in her Lakewood office. Despite her preference for other approaches, one of the federal bills she’s co-sponsoring would study the handful of sites available in the U.S. “So in the long term, we save more lives by, I believe, focusing on all of the other things.
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