The city’s medical services director, Dr. James Dunford told a City
Council committee Nov. 13 that more than 2.5 million dirty needles were
properly disposed of since the start of the city’s Clean Syringe
Exchange Program.
Presenting the Safe Point San Diego Clean Syringe Exchange Program
Annual Report for fiscal year 2014 Dunford then asked Council members to
imagine the stack of 2.5 million dirty needles: “Put that at Petco Park and see what kind of pile you’d be looking at.”
Dunford told members of the Public Safety & Livable Neighborhoods
Committee the program has taken in 405,416 dirty needles just in the
last fiscal year. He said the program has collected 276,958 more
syringes than clean ones distributed to drug addicts.
Read more... Labels: Harm Reduction, needle exchange, San Diego, Transmission and Prevention