Advocate for safe-injection sites dies of OD in Philly's heroin hellscape

Philly.Com ^ | 05/19/2017 | Stephanie Farr

[Kid Shelleen]

Paul Yabor spent Tuesday volunteering with Prevention Point, handing out clean needles to drug users in Kensington, just as he had done many other times in the last 12 years.

Yabor, 55, had devoted much of his life to HIV/AIDS and injection drug-user advocacy. Since January, he had been working to bring a safe and supervised injection site to Philadelphia to replace the festering heroin hellscape in Kensington and Fairhill, where users gather to shoot up along a gorge forged by Conrail tracks.

[Kid Shelleen]

I wonder if any of the Antifa fake tough guys will take on some of the drug gangs that infest neighborhoods? /s

[soycd]

He found the cure for “Stupid.”

[Celerity]

It’s hard to believe that our country was pretty much birthed in this town.

Philly is SUCH a dump. I advocate for re-drawing the borders around the city and it’s suburbs. Give it to Jersey.

Those scumbags deserve it.

[Kid Shelleen]

It’s like a recovering alcoholic getting a job as a bartender.

[Darksheare]

I like how they think we’ll feel sympathy for idiocy.

[CrappieLuck]

Well at least his needle was clean. /sarc

[Joe Bfstplk]

Do the give them alcohol swabs to clean the skin for injection?

[dainbramaged]

Hard core junkies will be looking for the exact strain of dope this idiot overdosed on, since it’s likely good stuff. I kid you not.

[lightman]

Live by the needle, die by the needle.

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[DoughtyOne]

Hey, he’s dead.

Quit trying to needle the guy.

“:^)

[Dick Vomer]

Well at least he died doing what he loved.

[Albion Wilde]

Together, Martino, Yabor, and a third man, Paul Cherashore, advocated for safe, supervised injection sites against the hate, vitriol, and apathy some people have for addicts.

They ought to put them in police stations. Not kidding. If it' becomes the law that they are allowed to have such sites, then this is the logical place for them, to cut down on the associated disorders of popup shooting galleries. Residents who already live near police stations are accustomed to low-lifes passing through in that location. At least they will know that the addicts' comings and goings will be monitored.

[hal ogen]

Oh, well.

[Phil DiBasquette]

They should have done it by the Main Line /s

[moovova]

“Quit trying to needle the guy.”

I think he got the point.

;*)

[VTenigma]

Too bad, so sad. Next!

[DoughtyOne]

Just not soon enough...

[DIRTYSECRET]

Can’t we give them a safe place to shoot up? By safe I mean at least a mile away from me.

[DoughtyOne]

Make it ten, and I’m in.