The Sheetz in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, just installed blue lights to keep people from doing drugs in the bathroom. But research suggests that won’t work.
A Pennsylvania convenience store is testing out blue lighting in the bathroom to see if it will detract opioid addicts from doing drugs there.
But existing research suggests that blue-lit bathrooms don’t deter addicts with few other options.
Other strategies that can help include dispensing overdose anecdote Naloxone, but that’s more expensive.
A Sheetz gas station convenience store in the town of New Kensington, Pennsylvania has installed blue lights in its bathroom, hoping to curb illegal drug use.
“The blue light system makes it so that somebody who is looking to inject heroin or an opioid can’t find their veins,” Sheetz spokesman Nick Ruffner told the Valley News Dispatch.
The company said they’re trying the lighting strategy in this single location as a kind of pilot test.
Tech: A gas station desperate to curb drug overdoses turned its bathroom lights blue so people can’t see their veins
