Sacha Pfeiffer’s powerful Globe report (“Overwhelmed by overdoses, clinic offers a room for highs,’’ Page A1, April 26) on Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program’s new safe space project, where drug users can receive medical monitoring and support while they are high, is a ground-breaking and essential new intervention in treating and helping those whose lives are most at risk from opioids.

Today’s unprecedented opioid crisis requires creative interventions on many fronts. The safe space project is highly innovative for Massachusetts, deeply humane for the individual, and realistic in the kind of new interventions we must consider implementing if we are to get ahead of this epidemic.

Boston Healthcare for the Homeless recognized a major gap in how our state deals with addiction. They acted on that void to create a sound, reasonable, and nonjudgmental medical intervention that unquestionably will save countless lives.

There is no sugarcoating the deadly effects of this substance abuse crisis in our community. I applaud Boston Healthcare for the Homeless for taking the risk and daring to add an essential new choice to a toolbox that includes treatment, health care, prevention, and outreach.

Jonathan D. Scott

Boston

The writer is the president and CEO of Victory Programs, a nonprofit focused on homelessness and substance use disorder treatment.