Public Restrooms Become Ground Zero in the Opioid Epidemic

Public Restrooms Become Ground Zero in the Opioid Epidemic
AP Photo/Jonathan J. Cooper

People often turn to public restrooms as a place to get high on opioids. It has led some establishments to close their facilities, while others are training employees to help people who overdose.

A man named Eddie threads through the mid-afternoon crowd in Cambridge, Mass. He's headed for a sandwich shop, the first stop on a tour of public bathrooms.

"I know all the bathrooms that I can and can't get high in," says Eddie, 39, pausing in front of the shop's plate glass windows, through which we can see a bathroom door.

 

 



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