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Advocate for safe-injection sites dies of OD in Philly's heroin hellscape
Philly.Com ^
| 05/19/2017
| Stephanie Farr
Posted on 05/19/2017 3:09:46 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Paul Yabor spent Tuesday volunteering with Prevention Point, handing out clean needles to drug users in Kensington, just as he had done many other times in the last 12 years.
Yabor, 55, had devoted much of his life to HIV/AIDS and injection drug-user advocacy. Since January, he had been working to bring a safe and supervised injection site to Philadelphia to replace the festering heroin hellscape in Kensington and Fairhill, where users gather to shoot up along a gorge forged by Conrail tracks.
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I wonder if any of the Antifa fake tough guys will take on some of the drug gangs that infest neighborhoods? /s
To: Kid Shelleen
He found the cure for “Stupid.”
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posted on
05/19/2017 3:12:54 PM PDT
by
soycd
To: Kid Shelleen
It’s hard to believe that our country was pretty much birthed in this town.
Philly is SUCH a dump. I advocate for re-drawing the borders around the city and it’s suburbs. Give it to Jersey.
Those scumbags deserve it.
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posted on
05/19/2017 3:15:24 PM PDT
by
Celerity
To: soycd
It’s like a recovering alcoholic getting a job as a bartender.
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posted on
05/19/2017 3:17:04 PM PDT
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Kid Shelleen
I like how they think we’ll feel sympathy for idiocy.
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posted on
05/19/2017 3:17:10 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Kid Shelleen
Well at least his needle was clean. /sarc
To: CrappieLuck
Do the give them alcohol swabs to clean the skin for injection?
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posted on
05/19/2017 3:26:41 PM PDT
by
Joe Bfstplk
(A Irredeemable Deplorable Texan)
To: Kid Shelleen
Hard core junkies will be looking for the exact strain of dope this idiot overdosed on, since it’s likely good stuff. I kid you not.
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posted on
05/19/2017 3:27:57 PM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: Kid Shelleen
Live by the needle, die by the needle.
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05/19/2017 3:29:24 PM PDT
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posted on
05/19/2017 3:35:01 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Happy days are here again!)
Hey, he’s dead.
Quit trying to needle the guy.
“:^)
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posted on
05/19/2017 3:35:46 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Happy days are here again!)
To: Kid Shelleen
Well at least he died doing what he loved.
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posted on
05/19/2017 3:42:48 PM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitante)
To: Kid Shelleen
Together, Martino, Yabor, and a third man, Paul Cherashore, advocated for safe, supervised injection sites against the hate, vitriol, and apathy some people have for addicts. They ought to put them in police stations. Not kidding. If it' becomes the law that they are allowed to have such sites, then this is the logical place for them, to cut down on the associated disorders of popup shooting galleries. Residents who already live near police stations are accustomed to low-lifes passing through in that location. At least they will know that the addicts' comings and goings will be monitored.
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posted on
05/19/2017 3:54:09 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
To: Albion Wilde
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posted on
05/19/2017 3:56:10 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
To: Kid Shelleen
They should have done it by the Main Line /s
To: DoughtyOne
“Quit trying to needle the guy.”
I think he got the point.
;*)
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05/19/2017 4:20:37 PM PDT
by
moovova
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
05/19/2017 4:44:54 PM PDT
by
VTenigma
(The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: moovova
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posted on
05/19/2017 4:49:44 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Happy days are here again!)
To: DoughtyOne
Can’t we give them a safe place to shoot up? By safe I mean at least a mile away from me.
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posted on
05/19/2017 5:14:42 PM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: DIRTYSECRET
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posted on
05/19/2017 5:16:27 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Happy days are here again!)
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