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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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"...where users gather to shoot up along a gorge forged by Conrail tracks."

Do they even know they're alive???

21 posted on 05/19/2017 5:50:04 PM PDT by jackibutterfly (We have to stop saying "How stupid can you get". Too many people are seeing it as a challenge.)
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Sell it in 5lb bags in grocery stores. We won’t have any junkies in a month.


22 posted on 05/19/2017 5:59:48 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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Yabor, 55, had devoted much of his life to HIV/AIDS

So, when did he become infected?

23 posted on 05/19/2017 6:09:34 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (41)
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Sell it in 5lb bags in grocery stores. We won’t have any junkies in a month.

Now that's an efficient suggestion. Surely, with all the ICE raids going on, there must be inventory available via confiscation.

24 posted on 05/20/2017 6:50:06 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: Kid Shelleen

David Lynch was inspired by the weirdness and corruption of Philadelphia. It can be avoided, mostly.


25 posted on 05/20/2017 6:52:44 AM PDT by Stentor
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users gather to shoot up along a gorge forged by Conrail tracks

Them is suuum special Conrail tracks.

Wonder how come we don't put them to work out in San Fran, Seattle and other hubs of civilization, where at present we have only humans and heavy equipment digging themselves into a deeper hole.

26 posted on 05/20/2017 8:07:53 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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Every boat we bag with a load on board should be given away to the junkies/cokeheads. They wouldn’t have to steal and the dealers get no money. Hopefully, the druggies won’t last long


27 posted on 05/20/2017 10:15:04 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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Sell it in 5lb bags in grocery stores. We won’t have any junkies in a month.

Much better plan than enriching cartels in an attempt to save fools from themselves.

28 posted on 05/20/2017 11:44:14 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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