Good Ideas Gone Bad
The logic behind making needles easy to obtain is that the more people share syringes, the more likely they are to contract HIV and other blood-borne diseases.
The problem is getting back the needles from users once they take off to cloud nine.
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“We need to come up with a better system,” Mirkarimi said.
Via – sfgate.com.
Safe injection sites? Needle exchanges?
It seems pretty obvious that people using intravenous drugs might not have the ability to consider safe disposal of their needles – especially right after they’ve used them.
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