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Originally Posted by DoubleF
I used to live in that area and I still own a rental property there. You'd run into the occasional individual who was drunk, high, homeless etc. but they were always respectful and whatnot and I never minded them. I'd even give them clean bottles and cans on occasion.
If the reports are coming out are true, I agree that's very disappointing. I don't have an issue with the safe injection site there, but if the community immediately feels unsafe and there's a huge spike in needles littered around, then that's no good.
I agree with a previous comment. This site should also be involved in aiding the safe disposal of the needles. Trading in used needles for something of value should help clean up the littered needles very quickly (ie: needles for gift cards/new needles or something).
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I think was in freaknomics or one of the gladwell books where they talked about paying $1 for used needles or else it was you had to have a dirty needle to get a clean needle and what happened was there became this clean / dirty needle economy which able drug addicts would clean up and profit of ones who couldn’t manage needles and the streets got cleaner.
Some kind of program similar to aluminium can recycling should be very effective.