At least it gets them off the streets, right? (The needles, that is.)
Bangor, Maine is now establishing a needle drop-off and the Facebook reactions to the state of affairs reflect a dark humor veiling grim dissatisfaction.
“They should take SNAP!” commented Deplorablegurl.
“Awesome,” wrote Randy Stone. “Put one in every council member’s neighborhood that voted YES.”
The council majority did, in fact, just vote “yes” (6-2) to approve Needlepoint Sanctuary Syringe Service to open up its doors for business.
“Gross,” Jonathan Francis commented in his Facebook analysis of the Queen City’s growing drug problem.
The organization plans to offer “syringe services,” now an acquired taste for those of us alive in 2025.
The needle onslaught stems from a growing use of shared needles among addicts who inject themselves – and apparently their good friends – with the same needle.
The result? A spreading HIV virus that comes from transferring infections intravenously through shared needles.
Remember the old days when sharing was an act of love and respect?
That was your father’s Bangor, not the Queen City of 2025.
Funny? Or sad?
You make the call.
Needlepoint Sanctuary has been offering some services at the Unitarian Universalist Church but could not provide syringe “services” there.
Syringe-service providers provide clean needles as well as testing and connections to medical treatment, among other services, to reduce the risk of overdose and infectious disease.
