Needles being used up to 86 times a day in Australian prisons | ABC NEWS

Prisoners share graphic accounts of sharing and using makeshift needles to inject drugs in jail. One account described a syringe fabricated from a bread bag, pen and toothpaste tube. Others describe single needles being used over 80 times a day, and remaining in circulation for over six months.
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