What health commissioner encourages addicts to inject fentanyl 10 to 15 times a day as an antidote to contracting HIV? How is this not perpetuating a cycle of addiction as opposed to improving public health? Who benefits from this craziness in the safest big city in the country? How about using some common sense? Stop the distribution of needles immediately. Clear the streets of all tents, chairs, wheelchairs, etc. Put them all in treatment. If they refuse, they go to jail. Sixty days in jail will get them off of drugs more effectively than handing them syringes.

Sean F. Flaherty

Boston

As a retired Boston Police Officer and editor of my union’s newspaper Pax Centurion, I wrote frequently in the late 90’s and early 2000’s about the dangers of passing out free needles to drug addicts. Th

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