WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Colored bulbs cast an eerie blue glow in the restroom of a convenience store where people who inject heroin and other drugs have been seeking the relative privacy of the stalls to shoot up.
The blue lights are meant to discourage people from using drugs in store bathrooms by making it more difficult for them to see their veins. It’s an idea that’s been around for years but is getting a fresh look as a result of the nation’s opioid epidemic.
“The hardest-core opiate user still wants to be accurate. They want to make sure the needle goes in the right spot,” said Read Hayes, a University of Florida researcher and director of the Loss Prevention Research Council, a retail industry-supported group that is looking at the lights’ effectiveness. The purpose of the blue light is to “disrupt that process” and force people to go somewhere else to take drugs, he said. more here
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That blue light plus loud Chinese opera should really do the trick.
Give ’em a magnifying glass and an extra dose of fentanyl
Clean up the mess.
Rinse.
Repeat.
A depressingly sad story from smaller city P.A. It seems heroin ran it’s course by the mid-70s when cocaine became all the rage. It that what it takes to reduce deaths from one type of drug, a new fashionable addiction to take its place?
how come they don’t stay home to shoot up ?
mom probably hardly ever ventures into the basement.
How about flashing red and blue lights, would that work?
Missing the vein may cause a bad abscess. Lose your life by a raging infection as well as possible OD.
Thanks Mexico, your drugs and your discarded people can both go back across the border. Narco state scumbags.
If you ain’t main lining you’re just skin poppin’.
One of the reasons I dont hang out in ghettos and use any public restrooms. Yeesh.
Oh, well. They will just add a little flashlight or use their iphones in their hype kits.