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Sue Purchase packs a sharps container into a paper bag that is destined for someone using drugs on Dec. 31 at the offices of Harm Reduction Sisters in Duluth, Minn. Other items that may accompany sharps containers in these paper bags are needles, cotton swabs, tourniquets, condoms, Narcan and more.
Derek Montgomery for MPR News
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