Mike Spaeth has a routine.

Each day, he unlocks the chain-link gate to his business on Central and Indiana, rolls it open and picks up spent hypodermic needles from the gravel below. Then, he walks the perimeter, where he often finds people slumped over, asleep or out-of-it, against his businesses’ front door or under its windows.

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