Discarded needles in spotlight as Edmonton mulls safe injection sites
Cardboard boxes filled with syringes fill every nook and cranny of the Streetworks office at Boyle Street Community Services.
They’re stacked on top of cabinets, in corners and underneath a table in the centre of the brightly lit office. Unboxed sharps, wrapped in plastic, are stored in bins along a counter where people who use drugs can pick up clean supplies.
The boxes go “wherever we can stuff them,” said Marliss Taylor, program manager at Streetworks. Last
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