Trash Me

Take a look at my colleague, Joe Gambardello's, piece today about a Kensington neighborhood where a well-intentioned policy (needle exchange program) has turned parks and streets into an infectious disease nightmare. It is probably too much to expect addicts to care about where they toss their instruments of self-destruction. But there's no excuse for what is happening here. Styrofoam and windblown plastic bags can damage the soul of a neighborhood. Syringes can kill. Look at how much care is given in hospitals to the discarding of sharps.