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Originally Posted by chemgear
Last year, the service distributed a record 2.25 million syringes through its needle exchange van and exchange sites throughout the city. The goal, Taylor said, is to “flood the market” with clean needles, reducing the health impacts of intravenous drug use.
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Unfortunately, they are also flooding inner city sidewalks and parks with used needle debris.
Maybe the solution is to have Safeworks be for supervised drug use only, and have needle dispensary points dispersed throughout the inner city - combined with a renewed focus on providing needle dropboxes.