Health committee  I'd say they're wrong. As I said, we are seeing that the addicts are becoming younger and younger. We're seeing more and more of it. As I said, there's a tenfold increase in our community year on year, since we started. That's incredible. Last year we picked up 4,000 syringes, an

Health committee  In our first year we saw 18 syringes; the second year, 300; last year, 4,000; and this year, 40,000.

Health committee  It's what I've been saying for years already.

Health committee  Absolutely, we are in a really bad spot right now. If things don't change quickly, we're going to be overrun by this. Right now it's only four years in and we can still change things.

Health committee  We're living in a food desert in our community, and one of the biggest problems that we're having is with the corner stores that we have in our community. Everything is overpriced there, and you can't get really good, wholesome food in those stores. Crack pipes, bongs, papers and

Health committee  Right. That's what we're seeing. We're seeing our community members come out of prison, get back into the addiction, get caught up in trouble, go to the hospital and go to prison. It just keeps happening over and over again. We have two volunteers currently who are going through

Health committee  There's not enough support when people are released from prison. The EIA system is kind of punitive. In our community, it's about $100 per month for food for people coming out and need that service. If you're coming out of prison and you're given $97 a month to survive, it's not

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