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Board approves harm-reduction contract; supervisors press vendor on syringe and glass-pipe recovery
Summary
After debate about environmental and public-safety risks, the Board of Supervisors approved the county's harm-reduction contract with its existing provider and assigned a supervisor to work with public health and the provider on collection and documentation improvements.
The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors voted to approve the county’s harm-reduction contract with its existing community provider, after a lengthy public and board debate over syringe and glass-pipe distribution and retrieval.
Supervisor Norvell pulled the item from the consent calendar for discussion. In his remarks he described frustration that exchange-return numbers reported to the county showed a gap between supplies distributed and supplies collected; in recent years the board cited counts showing thousands of syringes and glass smoking devices distributed with materially smaller recovery counts. Norvell said that, in his view, the program’s approach to collection needed to change and that he wanted measurable improvements in retrieval and documentation.
Dr. Janine Miller, Mendocino County Health Services…
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