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dreameater_baku t1_ixopw42 wrote

I believe it's to deter intravenous drug use... blue light makes it harder to see the veins.

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Bobbybigdumps t1_ixqprbp wrote

It’s not ideal, but I could probably still do a whole bunch of drugs in there

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ThisIsForFood t1_ixs08ed wrote

They don’t care about you doing any drug in there, they don’t want you doing poor people drugs in there

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Yourbedsheets t1_ixp48hc wrote

But then I could use my iPhone light and it defeats the purpose

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UncleJackPushedDad t1_iyeiyym wrote

I would have guessed it was UV antibacterial light that's supposed to turn off by motion sensor when someone enters so it doesn't burn your retinas because it's actually much brighter than it looks, because most of the spectrum is invisible.

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[deleted] t1_ixoyoin wrote

Insulin doesn’t go in your veins

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NotARobotDefACyborg t1_ixp060q wrote

Insulin is injected SQ, or subcutaneously, under the skin, rather than IM, intramuscular, or IV, intravenously. It goes under the skin so that it will absorb at a rate that regulates your blood sugar, rather than dropping it rapidly. Source: I'm a type 2 diabetic. :)

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jahgoff t1_ixozs09 wrote

It goes in your thigh generally, but technically it can go in any muscle.

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Cane-Dewey t1_ixqfxg6 wrote

Reddit. Where medical advice can be given by someone named jahgoff.

I love it.

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Torpul t1_ixqltl9 wrote

To be fair some of the biggest jahgoffs I know are doctors

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Behr79 t1_ixopul9 wrote

I know it sounds messed up, but I’m pretty sure it impairs the ability to find a vein for drug users.

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tusabescomoes t1_ixoqy5a wrote

This is correct here is a study done about it

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nxtfari t1_ixpi34e wrote

Interesting the conclusion from the study was that it's basically pointless:

>Conclusions: Blue lights are unlikely to deter injection drugs use in public washrooms, and may increase drug use-related harms. Despite recognizing these negative effects, people who use injection drugs may be reluctant to advocate against their use. We attempt to reconcile this apparent contradiction by interpreting blue lights as a form of symbolic violence and suggest a parallel with other emancipatory movements for inspiration in advocating against this and other oppressive interventions.

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Flat-Development-906 t1_ixpjrwx wrote

This. I work detox and substance abuse support- if someone really wants to get high, they’ll get high. It’s weird that the grocery store feels the need in their bathroom for this and all it does is piss off regular customers.

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mccarthycodes t1_ixpq9zu wrote

I mean it's a deterrent. No one says it stops drug use 100%.

It's the same as door locks. They deter opportunistic thieves, but it's not hard to pick a lock; the store is hoping other bathrooms are less inconvenient...

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ImNotAtAllCreative81 t1_ixq5s5r wrote

Drug use tends to be a problem in supermarket bathrooms. I know of a few ODs that have occured in them.

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ButterAndPaint t1_ixq34bn wrote

Are people pissed off by this? I think it looks cool.

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Torpul t1_ixqm9aw wrote

If your penis is small and blue it also makes it harder to pee without making a mess... or so I'm told.

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TecumsehSherman t1_ixrc4v1 wrote

>It’s weird that the grocery store feels the need in their bathroom for this and all it does is piss off regular

It's not weird that some junky customer thinks that they have the right to use other people's grocery stores to get high?

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rubicon83 t1_ixs6csj wrote

The have the need because the neiborhood this store is in is crawling with junkies. They likely had numerous overdoses and this is their solution to try to minimize it continuing.

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houndoftindalos t1_ixq7phq wrote

All this language about "symbolic violence" and "other emancipatory movements" tells me this study clearly had an agenda. They clearly weren't just there to study it and report the objective truth. I wouldn't trust it. What about the "violence" done to grocery store workers who have to clean up after these people and use this bathroom? Screw them I guess. Let the drug users reign supreme!

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Sheol t1_ixqqcy2 wrote

My dude, the paper was published in Harm Reduction, of course it's part of the harm reduction movement.

That conclusion unfortunately was only looking at the problem from the drug users and the harm reduction stand point and really ignores the property owners view. The take away from many of the interviews was, "I'd avoid the blue lights unless I really needed a spot, then I'd use it anyway and it's be more dangerous for me to inject without seeing right." Which has obvious negatives for those two parties, and quite a positive effect for the store owner.

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Shelby-Stylo t1_ixqhrwg wrote

I take “symbolic violence” and “oppressive interventions” to mean that the study’s authors find it abhorrent that anybody would do anything to prevent open drug use.

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lpn122 t1_ixqqva2 wrote

It literally says above that the blue lights don’t really deter drug use and instead can make it more likely for IV users to hurt themselves—but the lights are installed anyway because the store owners are being symbolically violent toward the drug users, that is, hoping they harm themselves because drug users deserve to be harmed.

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TecumsehSherman t1_ixrcdg9 wrote

>, that is, hoping they harm themselves because drug users deserve to be harmed.

Or maybe they're hoping that a young kid shopping with his family for dinner doesn't stumble on an OD victim just because he has to pee?

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lpn122 t1_ixrhaev wrote

I’m not saying that it’s wrong for stores to try to prevent people from using drugs in the bathrooms, I was just explaining the symbolic violence of the blue lights.

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PM_ME_SUMDICK t1_ixsduep wrote

They're more likely to stumble on the OD victim in the blue lit bathroom.

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StoJa9 t1_ixota5v wrote

Why is that messed up? would you rather walk in to take a shit and find that someone OD on the bathroom floor? Call me crazy but that would be messed up.

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jenn363 t1_ixowhfg wrote

Messed up that so many people are using intravenous drugs that we have to have blue lights up so people don’t OD at a grocery store.

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Local_Stuff_Acct t1_ixpdnpf wrote

Honestly yes I would prefer that, this looks like hell on the ol eyeballs.

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SpicyCursive t1_ixoubr6 wrote

Not exactly relevant but I experienced the blue light bathroom recently - and a world turned ORANGE when I emerged.

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Pashanka t1_ixoyawn wrote

Preventing needle drug use while encouraging psychedelic drug use. As it should.

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ThisistheInfiniteIs t1_ixoqc57 wrote

Supposedly to make is harder for drug users to find a vein and use intravenous drugs.

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Much-Bus-6585 t1_ixoug70 wrote

I swear everyone on reddit just facerolls on their keyboards to make a title

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chedderr_com t1_ixqi0o4 wrote

coherently why type when you just guess can words where they go?

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muddymoose t1_ixov00t wrote

If it was green you would die

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Starbuksman t1_ixpzizp wrote

Drugs. So people cannot find veins - very big thing in Europe.

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Laszlo-Panaflex t1_ixp83vj wrote

As others have said, it's to stop drug use. There are a lot of homeless people there yes, but also a lot of heroin users. A bunch of nearby clinics treat their addiction and I used to see them outside, in Dunks, etc. when I worked in a building nearby.

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hummingbirds_R_tasty t1_ixox5yz wrote

thanks to reddit i think i know this. blue lights to make it harder to find veins for shooting up.

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annie_b666 t1_ixp5zuz wrote

So it’s harder to shoot up

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jacknolax t1_ixp8bnn wrote

To make ur pee green. Go C’s

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Oreos_and t1_ixoxhlv wrote

in jingle tone

sometimes they think it don’t be like that, but it do

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v-b t1_ixp3wf9 wrote

Sadly this doesn’t do anything to actually deter addiction / drug use. Users just go into North Station instead.

Safe injection sites, and actual treatment programs would be safer for all.

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ipsumdeiamoamasamat t1_ixq2ksm wrote

I’m not saying safe injection sites shouldn’t be a thing, but I don’t see how they reduce usage? Can you explain it to me like I’m a 5-year-old?

Agree on the treatment issue but now that we can’t ship the druggies out to an island in the middle of the harbor, it’s apparently impossible to find a solution.

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mpjjpm t1_ixq6ila wrote

Safe injection sites have resources for immediate referral into rehab/treatment for anyone who wants it. So people can use with less risk of overdose, and get into treatment if/when they are ready.

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H2AK119ub t1_ixq77cy wrote

I am always curious as to what the conversion rate is at safe injection sites to rehab/treatment. I would bet low single digits.

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lpn122 t1_ixqrit6 wrote

Safe injection sites’ main purposes are to prevent the spread of disease by providing users with clean needles, and to have personnel available to try to prevent or reverse ODs.

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snakeob69 t1_ixqkbsd wrote

It is because orcs are close by.

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yungbaklava t1_ixruy9a wrote

So you can see the semen on the walls better

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devAcc123 t1_ixp7cgj wrote

Now that you got your answer this would go so well in r/liminalspaces

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dropsofjupiter1031 t1_ixpnkab wrote

Why is there a star market at a sports venue to begin with?

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mpjjpm t1_ixq6olw wrote

It’s not just a sports venue. It’s a major transit hub and walking distance to several densely populated neighborhoods. The grocery store isn’t in TD Garden. It’s next door.

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dropsofjupiter1031 t1_ixsooxa wrote

I'm fully aware of what TD Garden is. I'm from Boston and lived there and in East Boston for 47 years, thank you. I haven't been to North Station or the surrounding area for seven years now, since I live in Montana.

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Nomadbytrade t1_ixsy6ry wrote

You asked. Then got mad you got an answer.

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dropsofjupiter1031 t1_iy19ee3 wrote

Not true. I heard your snide sarcasm and didn't appreciate being treated like that. But then again, the true reddit warriors are sarcastic imps so ...

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kenkopin t1_ixq7hmp wrote

Da ba dee da ba di.

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77schild t1_ixqd1qt wrote

Harder to pop a vein., just have to snort it off the back of the toilet, more classy that way also.

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15367288 t1_ixqd8mf wrote

I hate these bathrooms. I can’t find a vein for shit.

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Smart_Ad_2886 t1_ixqfnl2 wrote

Is it a defect like the purple streetlights

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justUseAnSvm t1_ixqicsa wrote

Pretty silly. If you ever notice how a phlebotomist finds a vein, they aren’t looking for it, they use touch/feel. Maybe IV drug users are doing it visually because they don’t know, but they’ll learn pretty quickly to do it by feel…

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lpn122 t1_ixqruan wrote

I had a friend who was a recovered IV drug user, she went to phlebotomy school and was the top of her class.

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ThatRailsGuy t1_ixqqt6j wrote

Protomolecule infestation. Nope out of there in a hurry

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ChaosUncaged t1_ixr1hcy wrote

Too bad it's useless to stop drug use

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keleles t1_ixr2jbk wrote

I'm no expert but I'm gonna guess it's because the lights are blue.

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No_Animator_8599 t1_ixr6ru1 wrote

I remember a men’s bathroom stall that had very short doors on the toilets in a Macy’s in San Francisco in the 80’s around Union Square. I can only assume it was to discourage sexual activity. Never saw this anywhere else in the Bay Area at the time.

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5dollarsanhour t1_ixrc9qo wrote

This is by far my favorite place to piss-- wish I could put it on Google maps

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fuzzynwarmboy t1_ixrczim wrote

Y'know, they don't go and make the bathroom blue at the nerd board game shoppe where Magic the Gathering is played every Friday night. Think about it, sports fans.

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macpigem t1_ixrtqwn wrote

oh sweet summer child

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TinkyThePirate t1_ixryo91 wrote

This is the bathroom at the police station in Bladerunner

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Ronpm111 t1_ixryx7z wrote

You are in the Smurf bathroom

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Salty-Ad-4747 t1_ixsdef7 wrote

Really iv drug users ????

I love that star market I thought it was a cleaning thing kill germs I guess I was wrong That surprising

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Known-Box-7058 t1_ixsvc70 wrote

You can see veins in blue light. They are stopping people from shooting up

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bostonman617 t1_ixwwcqs wrote

I use to work there. Great store and even better toilet.

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tbirdpow t1_ixpe22k wrote

Homies can't shoot up

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TedKerry21 t1_ixorit6 wrote

Are there a lot of heroin users paying top dollar for sports or concerts?

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Direct-Pressure-7452 t1_ixosibl wrote

The StarMarket is open to the public. You dont have to by an event ticket to shop there

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mpjjpm t1_ixotkki wrote

And there’s no code or key required to access the restroom

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TedKerry21 t1_ixowcqj wrote

Ah - read that too fast. Wonder if there is a 3D movie glasses or blue blocker hack

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STD_Train t1_ixoz3t0 wrote

There’s homeless people all around North Station and that area. Clearly you don’t come around often

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Altruistic-Horror235 t1_ixowv39 wrote

It’s probably a good begging spot, get enough money for a hit in no time if there’s a lot of merry people about.

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DrWhoisOverRated t1_ixp9eup wrote

I've seen several fights in that spot when one guy has claimed it as his spot, and another guy tries to move in.

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animal_moth3r_ t1_ixoyi7z wrote

I feel this may have adverse effects. You can certainly hit a vein you cant see. Plus shit would look cool as hell in that light all yammed up

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animal_moth3r_ t1_ixoxl5l wrote

I was the smartest person at the table today…just vomited shit i read on here 🤷🏻

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cheezepie t1_ixp0u2a wrote

because crackheads

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Texasian t1_ixptk4n wrote

I bet those are LED tubes and not fluorescent. There’s been a rash of issues with LEDs “going blue” that stem from components manufactured just before the pandemic. If you Google it, there’s a rash of stories about streetlights turning blue etc etc.

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Greedy_Alarm_6748 t1_ixq4uwt wrote

Lol so the purple leds aren’t a new modern design touch? I thought that was intentionally done.

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mickeyXoXo69 t1_ixpbt38 wrote

Most phones have a flashlight. A user will find a way. I hope you MEN can aim ur piss better in that light cause you do a terrible job in regular lit bathrooms.

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