This is a public injecting spot in the West Midlands

This is a place where people would come to and uh use drugs to publicly inject you just need to be mindful here because obviously there are needles here generally around here but obviously at the moment the leaves are covering them so you just need to be very careful I

Think your boots are probably okay there needles here several needles obviously there’s one here uncapped there’s another one here there’s one There and the debris that’s lying about it’s not difficult to understand then you know why people develop infections and you know become ill

Advanced nurse practitioner Sue does outreach work with vulnerable people who are homeless and use drugs.

She shows us one of the public injecting spots in the West Midlands.

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22 comments
  1. On the first turn they tipped a bag of rubbish on the floor. Add some drammatic music and some commentary.
    Things are not always as they seem 😅

  2. I walk through this woodland often as a local , the amount of times I’ve been roughed up by junkie pigeons , or hassled by a crack smoking squirrel is a joke . Only yesterday a badger asked me if I had a fiver for fuel , I knew exactly what he’d have spent it on absolute travesty

  3. Supply and demand. Cut off the supply and demand then follows. It isn't going to get better unless society gets better. Substance abuse is a sign of a weak society.
    Imagine Britain in hand to hand combat against many other nations…..utter defeat.
    Politicians have had long enough to deal with this problem. A different approach is required.

  4. It is nice they go away from the public to do it. Where I live in Cov, they inject against the mesh fence of the primary school any time of the day.

  5. Ahh the good old war on drugs….I can get more now than I could when I was younger. It obviously is not working.

  6. Ok, this may or may not be true and accurate (staged props etc). But working on the theory that it is true …… Surely, considering this is a "public" area, a daily "clean up" system would be in operation!!!

  7. See what I don't understand about junkies, do they not have homes to jack up in? Decriminalise, provide safe consumption rooms, people who are against this are bonkers.

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