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For second time this year, little kid pricked by discarded hypodermic needle

The Herald reports a kindergartner gathering leaves outside the Ellis School in Roxbury got jabbed twice in the palm by a needle somebody had left there.

In July, a girl was jabbed by a needle at a Hyde Park playground.

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The playground near my apartment always has needles. So many that I have considered suggesting a collection box for used needles. How likely is it that it will actually get used though?

I hope this little boy doesn't get sick.

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We all know addicts need help but they can help themselves and innocent children by picking up their needles

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Disgusting. I hope they setup good camera and have better patrols to keep the junkies out of playgrounds.

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Boston parks and popular junkie spots ought to have a discrete and hardy sharps receptacles, unfortunately given downtown and company, NYMBY whiners, the problem just continues until people get pricked etc.
So take your silly aesthetic ideals and put up the damn things , DCR , Boston Parks, NPS, Greenway.

This off course is all just treating the symptoms from the disease of poor funding and the war on(poor ppl on) drugs . So ....what about long island, winter is coming....

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I believe when that was suggested to the city they said they'd tried putting one out and it got stolen, so weren't going to even attempt to try and put more of them out. Quality problem solving from the city.

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means they're not shooting up in parks and on playgrounds and leaving their needles around for kids to find. Some cities have opened safe injection sites, with personnel trained to intervene in case of overdose. Wasn't there some talk recently about Boston doing this?

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Not quite. No SIF proposed, more of a safe place to crash once you've shot up elsewhere.

But having more resources that would move addicts away from playgrounds would certainly reduce the number of addicts disposing of used needles in playgrounds.

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