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Morphine, needles and 1955 Boston Globe found buried in Winthrop yard

While Randy Hooper has contacted the local historical society about his find, he's still not sure what explains it.

Randy Hooper discovered needles and morphine wrapped in a newspaper from the 1950s while digging near his home recently.

WINTHROP, Maine (Kennebec Journal) — These days, it’s a sign of the times that Mainers frequently find needles in public places that were used to inject drugs and discarded on the side of the road.

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Read the daily police log, and you’ll notice some of the occasions when police are called to dispose of the pointy paraphernalia.

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