Round the area of town i live in theres loads of Junkies/smackheads/tweakers/heroin addicts or whatever you want to call them.

We get quite a few of them at work (i live close to work) and they often go to the toilets, stairwells, fire exits etc to shoot up and we have to come along and evict them as being a "family" orientated shopping centre, junkies on site doesnt fit in with the image, plus we dont want illegal activities and the filth they leave behind on our premises (and rightly so).

Theres one thing i really dont get. we ALL know about HIV and other nastys you can get from dirty needles/needle sharing etc. And in the town centre, the local anonymous free needle exchange is 150 yards from the shopping centre. They get free sharps box, free needles, swabs etc as often as they need.

So why are the junkies round my way still sharing needles regularly??? We chat to them while we evict them from the site and you can never get a reason why they share needles despite the risks and even more strange to me, why many of them wont go to the needle exchange??? I often ask them and they say they dont go there despite knowing where it is and they dont come up with a reason, usually just shrug shoulders or say dunno.

Anyone know why they would be sooo stupid as to not go and get free needles etc???

surely between "fixs" they must have at least 1/2% of thier brain power left to rational thought like "get new clean needles" etc

Anyone with drugs knowledge able to provide an insight?????