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Newsbrief:
Santa
Cruz
to
Place
Needle
Disposal
Boxes
in
Public
Restrooms
5/24/02
Responding to a series of
incidents where city employees were stuck by discarded syringes, the Santa
Cruz City Council voted unanimously on May 14 to install needle disposal
boxes in a dozen public restrooms in that California coast community.
Santa Cruz joins a tiny group of locales that offer the service, including
the state of Rhode Island, several Nevada casinos and the airports in Minneapolis,
San Francisco, and San Jose.
The padlocked steel boxes
will be located at popular sites such as the beach and wharf areas.
Workers from the Santa Cruz Needle Exchange program will pick up the discarded
syringes and deliver them to a county facility to be destroyed.
"This means people understand
it's a public health issue and nothing more," Needle Exchange executive
director Heather Edney-Meschery told the Associated Press. "It's
not about morality. It's not about whether or not people should or
should not use drugs."
While some beach businessmen
expressed concern about "making the city comfortable for drug addicts,"
the needle disposal boxes can also be used by diabetics who inject insulin,
as well as other medicines and vitamins that are injected.
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Issue #238, 5/24/02
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