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They need to put their large un-housed, unemployed workforce to work, cleaning up “they’re” mess. A toxic mess that floats across city borders to pollute the San Francisco Bay and beyond.
The Berkeley Needle Exchange (Giveaway) hands out over 11,000 needles each week. They will give anyone that walks in 600 needles, no exchange required. This must stop. A one for one exchange must occur, or we will be swimming in dirty syringes.
Working to reduce troublesome diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C is great. But, make sure you are not creating another problem in the process.
Needles wash up on coastal beaches every year by the hundreds, likely many more than that.
Decriminalize possession of syringes so that IV drug users will not be afraid to carry them to a true needle exchange.
Open safe injection sites so that IV drug users can medicate themselves in a safe place where they can get other services and their needles can be secured.
San Francisco hands out 4.45 million needles each year.
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