Needles

While these restrictions were in place, staff conducted extensive searches of all housing areas and confiscated over 850 contraband items, including 166 improvised weapons, 159 phones and 65 hypodermic needles, according to CDCR.

We can deliver medications through discrete needles, allowing for quick and effective symptomatic control.

“The spilling and leaking of bodily fluids from dead bodies was not only due to a lack of body bags, but also due to the fact that bodies would occasionally be delivered to the morgue with intravenous tubes still attached to them and with needles and other hospital ‘sharps’ still lying on the gurneys,” the lawsuit alleged.

It is hoped that by providing a safer space it will allow medical staff to prevent overdose deaths, reduce blood-borne viruses and clean-up a local area that, historically, has had a major issue with discarded needles and drug debris.

She took Disclosure on a tour of Calton's known using spots and said there was evidence of freshly discarded needles.