Discarded syringes in Santa Cruz County prompt questions about disease, a needle exchange and potential improvements

Contra Costa Times

In the depths of her heroin addiction 20 years ago, Frankie Marie tried to escape the pain in her life. Abused as a child and troubled in her adult life, she first experimented with heroin in Oregon. She was drawn to the Beach Flats area of Santa Cruz because of its notoriety then for easy access to drugs.

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