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| A McDonald's With Many Off-the-Menu |
| A McDonald's With Many Off-the-Menu Sales
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 20-July-2015
8:11:38 AM |
| Some customers pour beer into clear McCafe plastic cups and drink it right in the open. A man called Shamrock swills straight vodka from a Dasani water bottle at a table near the entrance.
The other day, a man headed straight for the bathroom, pausing only to open his backpack and grab a bag of heroin, known as "dog food." Another day, a couple shared a McDonald's vanilla shake at a side table and swallowed "sticks," the anti-anxiety prescription drug Xanax, and "pins," the anti-anxiety pill Klonopin.
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On a recent Wednesday, an ambulance showed up to carry away a regular who had been stabbed in an adjacent doorway, leaving blood all over the sidewalk.
The Times Square of today often seems like a theme park, a blend of wax museums, flashy billboards and slow-walking, street-clogging tourists. But this nearby McDonald's, on Eighth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets, is a throwback to a seedier era in New York, a place where those same tourists sit amid drug addicts looking for a fix or nodding out at tables after taking methadone, or maybe something else.
"The tourists don't know anything," said Nichole, 29, a former heroin user who lives in a shelter and goes to the McDonald's regularly with her boyfriend. "I love when they walk in here and look around and everybody is nodding out on a table. Because they have no idea what's going on. They're like, 'Why is everybody sleeping in here?'"
Why there? Because within a three-minute walk there are a clinic that dispenses methadone, the substitute opioid used to treat heroin addiction; two outpatient substance-abuse programs; and a needle exchange.
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