1.   A spaghetti pot filled with used syringes awaiting disposal sits on the stove.

2.   But the new report criticized federal policy against needle-exchange programs, in which intravenous drug addicts turn in used syringes and receive sterile ones.

3.   In a recent visit to West Baltimore, the parlor floor of one empty sky-blue house was littered with used syringes.

4.   In some emergency rooms, the floors Thursday were slick with blood, vomit and other body substances, and littered with medical material, including used syringes.

5.   In some European cities, addicts can exchange used syringes for clean ones at local police stations without fear of prosecution or harassment.

6.   In many rural clinics, used syringes and needles sit on the counter, waiting for re-use.

7.   Medical waste may include such items as bloody gauze pads, bandages, used syringes and human tissue and organs.

8.   Now, the used syringes and empty beer cans that covered the streets and lawns have disappeared.

9.   Used syringes and medical waste were piled outside a window.

10.   Used syringes glint in the blazing sunlight.