my name is sevin. i'd like to thank you for letting us speak and the work you're doing and from a personal standpoint it's important when i inject in public it's stressful. i see the faces of judgment and the looks of disgust and comments as people walk i. -- by. i live outside. i had a home and would go in my room and do my thing. eve everything i do is in public. injecting drugs is one of them. given this opportunity, a place, a clean environment in which so inject would benefit the community at large in general because san francisco's always been ahead of the curve. you were ahead of the curve on needle access and didn't obey the rules on a federal level you figured out a way to get it done because it's necessary. this is necessary. this is an epidemic. we have lots of people injecting. in the eight years i've been using i've noticed it more and more. piles and piles of needles. it's unacceptable. this will eliminate some of. -- some of that. we'll still be the pariahs but we don't have to be the vi