New York City Council is considering a new way to keep needles off of sidewalks and out of parks: Paying drug users to turn them in.
, the company that runs the initiative. At a rate of 20 cents per needle, that’s more than $440,000.
As written, one part of Ayala’s legislation needs clarification, McCrae noted at the hearing. The bill indicates that only people using overdose prevention centers — also known as supervised injection sites — would be able to participate in the syringe buyback pilot. But the city’s two overdose prevention centers,, already require clients to use clean needles they are given onsite.
“If they're holding onto their own [needles] and they see one on the street, they say, ‘Oh my God, I'm gonna pick that up because that might be the one that I'm short today [to make $10],’” DeLisle said. “It's now muscle memory, so that instead of walking by it, they stop and actually pick it up and dispose of it.”
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