. >> i'm lydia branston and i'm here as a community member and someone who has worked in the tenderloin for 13 years. when i first came to this work, i was one of those people who believes that tough love and zero tolerance for drug use was probably the best way to come to solving this problem. it came from a lack of understanding. 13 years later, i can say that i'm a huge proponent of harm reduction, safe injection sites, and the reason i say that is because tough love often means death. and i'm going to tell you the story of three gentleman today, who came through our treatment program. all three gentleman o.d.'d in the past 30 days, two of them on monday. one of them survived. the one who survived was not alone, and that's what this is about. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is cherry. [indiscernable] >> the drug injection site means like a brand name. it means that we allow, encourage everybody to go to a drug addiction center. so finally we legalize. we have drug injection site. and therefore we have -- we should not make a permanent drug injection site i