Following a federal court ruling declaring the facilities not in conflict with federal law, Massachusetts General Hospital’s health center in Charlestown will be creating a mock safe injection site to help educate the public about the role they play in preventing overdose deaths and connecting drug users to referral services.

“We’re willing to demonstrate to the public that this is a safe, hygienic medical intervention,” said Dr. Mark Eisenberg, who is overseeing the three-day ‘mock up’ event, which will take place at the hospital, located at 73 High Street in Charlestown. The facility will be up and running, stocked with real equipment used at an actual site, on Wednesday.

Eisenberg said the mock drug consumption facility is part of an ongoing collaboration with the hospital and SIF MA now!, a coalition of medical, civil and law enforcements professionals who vouch for the facilities. The mock up comes just weeks after a federal judge found that the consumption sites do not violate a section of the Controlled Substances Act.

Specifically, the judge ruled that a nonprofit’s plans to open a safe injection site in Philadelphia does not violate the so-called "crack house statute,” which makes it a felony to “knowingly open, lease, rent, use or maintain any place for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing or using any controlled substance.”

The mock up also comes amidst heightened tensions among the state’s top prosecutors about legality and enforcement issues surrounding the facilities. In a letter to lawmakers dated Oct. 8, Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins expressed support for legislation that would establish safe injection sites, rebuking U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling’s stance that the facilities — despite the Philadelphia federal court ruling — violate federal law.

Eisenberg said Charlestown MGH’s health center has held safe consumption site mock up events in Worcester and Springfield, as well as at colleges such as Harvard Medical School and Northeastern University. He said individuals with substance use disorder who consume drugs under the supervision of medical professionals are more likely to enter treatment.

The most compelling piece of evidence in favor of the safe injection facilities, Eisenberg says, is the fact that no one’s ever overdosed and died while at one.

“We acknowledge that some people can’t stop using drugs, and if they’re going to use drugs we want to make it safe as possible,” Eisenberg said.