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By adamg on Thu, 02/07/2019 - 10:29am

WCVB reports that over two years, Boston has collected 1 million hypodermic needles discarded around the city. With a map.

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By downtown-anon on Thu, 02/07/2019 - 10:52am.

In a recent two-year period, 1,059,166 needles were collected. That number includes used syringes turned in under the city’s needle exchange program and 67,162 needles picked up by Boston’s special Mobile Sharps Team.

That is 67,000 needles picked up, not a million.
Still both numbers reflect a lot of needles.

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By anon on Thu, 02/07/2019 - 11:18am.

um, that is 67k picked up by a specific team and nearly a million turned in by other means.

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By anon on Thu, 02/07/2019 - 6:37pm.

Ambiguous reporting. How many of the million were collected from needle disposal bins, versus found on the ground?

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By Refugee on Thu, 02/07/2019 - 3:42pm.

You shouldn't use a map to pick up discarded needles. You should use pliers.

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By Ron Newman on Thu, 02/07/2019 - 12:09pm.

Why doesn't the law already require this?

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By Gary C on Thu, 02/07/2019 - 1:14pm.

Liquor stores are required by law to take back empty beer cans, and yet I still find empty Bud Lights all over the place. Same thing with needles.

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By thegirl on Thu, 02/07/2019 - 1:25pm.

There were definitely locations that I reported discarded needles via Boston311 that are not reflected on that map.

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By anon on Thu, 02/07/2019 - 2:35pm.

Can we pay people or ask for volunteers to inject the drugs into them rather than have them do it themselves? This way they have clean needles and we can dispose of them properly. We also may want to make sure we keep the drugs safe and sanitaary.

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By bosguy22 on Fri, 02/08/2019 - 8:44am.

Are you volunteering?

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By blues_lead on Fri, 02/08/2019 - 9:54am.

Illegal under federal law. Lots of people think we should do it anyway. The city is looking into it, lots of recent news stories. I support it. It's about harm reduction.

https://www.google.com/search?q=safe+injection+sites+boston&oq=safe+inje...

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By anon on Thu, 02/07/2019 - 4:11pm.

And I have to pay 5 cents for every bottle I purchase.

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