Advocate for safe-injection sites dies of OD in Philly's heroin hellscape

Philly.Com ^ | 05/19/2017 | Stephanie Farr

[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.

[jackibutterfly]

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

Do they even know they're alive???

[Keyhopper]

Sell it in 5lb bags in grocery stores. We won’t have any junkies in a month.

[Oztrich Boy]

Yabor, 55, had devoted much of his life to HIV/AIDS

So, when did he become infected?

[Albion Wilde]

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.

[Stentor]

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

[Fightin Whitey]

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.

[Keyhopper]

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

[NobleFree]

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.