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Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2011 Dec 29;123(1-3):255–259. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2011.12.001

Table 2.

Number of Syringes Disposed in the Past 30 Days as Reported by Injection Drug Users in San Francisco (2008) and Miami (2009)

	San francisco (%)	Miami (%)
Public place	718 (1.1)	4,689 (45.2)
Selling/giving away	680 (1.1)	675 (6.5)
Trash	5,865 (9.1)	4,004 (38.6)
NSP	53,143 (82.7)	0 (0.0)
Hospital or clinic	1,049 (1.6)	200 (1.9)
Pharmacy	220 (0.3)	0 (0.0)
Sharps container	238 (0.4)	334 (3.2)
Public disposal box	1,135 (1.8)	0(0.0)
Sewer/manhole	136 (0.2)	234(2.2)
Flush down the toilet	1,026 (1.6)	163(1.6)
Other	49 (0.1)	80 (0.8)
Total syringes improperly disposed	8474 (13.2)	9,845 (94.9)
Total syringes disposed	64,259	10,379