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安德里亚·苏亚雷斯表示，“心系西雅图”七年来已累计提供超5万小时志愿服务，清理公共空间
作者：彼得·达布罗斯卡 福克斯新闻
“心系西雅图”创始人安德里亚·苏亚雷斯抨击蓝市毒品政策“令人发指”的双重标准——当地政府免费发放针具和吸毒装备，而她的志愿者团队却因清理这些装备遭到调查。
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西雅图一家非营利组织的创始人表示，得知自己的机构正因处理同款物资的方式遭到州政府调查时，她震惊不已。该组织专门清理由市县伤害减少项目分发的废弃吸毒用具。
安德里亚·苏亚雷斯是“心系西雅图”的创始人。她召集志愿者捡拾并处置针具、烟斗和锡纸等吸烟工具，以及金县“伤害减少”项目分发的其他吸毒用品。批评人士认为，这类政策可能助长持续吸毒行为，而非引导人们接受治疗、实现康复。
“我做过的最有力的维权行动之一，就是去针具交换点领取他们所谓的‘派对包’，以此证明金县‘卫生’部门正在分发炊具、止血带和玻璃烟斗等吸毒用具，”苏亚雷斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“我当时把这个‘派对包’称为‘自杀包’，里面几乎没有任何关于如何接受医疗戒毒的信息。”
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安德里亚·苏亚雷斯与“心系西雅图”的志愿者们一起清理吸毒用具。（“心系西雅图”供图）
苏亚雷斯致力于清洁街道、公园和游乐场的工作已持续七年，“心系西雅图”累计志愿服务时长已超5万小时。该组织2020年创立时只有她一人，过去六年半时间里，她组建了一支由数百名志愿者组成的队伍。
如今该组织正面临州职场安全调查，苏亚雷斯表示这是该组织首次遭遇政府调查。
根据华盛顿州劳工与工业部发给苏亚雷斯的、福克斯新闻数字频道看到的文件，该部门正在调查“心系西雅图”，此前有投诉称该组织“不当处理和收集皮下注射针头与芬太尼吸毒用具”。
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苏亚雷斯否认存在不当行为，并表示该组织会佩戴手套、使用捡拾工具，并严格按照锐器处置流程操作，同时她还提到“心系西雅图”官网发布的安全指南。该指南包括指导志愿者穿戴防护装备，比如长裤、长袖衣物和封闭脚趾的靴子，以防范潜在危险。网站还为志愿者提供捡拾垃圾时的安全防护建议。
苏亚雷斯认为，州政府一边审视她的团队如何处理废弃吸毒用品，一边却允许当地伤害减少项目分发同类物资，这是双重标准。
2022年3月13日，华盛顿州西雅图，一处无家可归者营地的树上挂着海洛因注射器。（约翰·摩尔/盖蒂图片社）
西雅图市长表示：新无家可归者收容所无需要求戒毒
“我们七年如一日，每天、每个周末都在外捡拾针头和垃圾。而政府给我的‘感谢信’却是一封通知，说‘你因涉嫌不当处理这些他们免费发放、却未附带任何说明的设备，正在接受调查’。”
苏亚雷斯表示，得知调查消息后，她曾前往一处伤害减少项目点，询问关于处理“芬太尼锡纸”等危险吸毒用品的具体指导，但工作人员并未提供相关说明。
华盛顿州劳工与工业部告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，此次调查源于该组织外部人士的投诉。
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发言人马特·罗斯表示，调查可能需要长达六个月时间，完成后结果将向公众公开。他说还有一项针对临时 staffing 机构的相关调查，但拒绝透露具体细节。
“如果组织未达到相关要求，检查员可以开出违规罚单，也可以对检查过程中发现的其他安全隐患开出罚单，”他说，“检查员还会协助组织找到解决发现的隐患的最佳方案。潜在处罚将取决于违规的具体情况。”
苏亚雷斯批评州和地方的伤害减少政策，认为这些政策加剧了她的志愿者们正在清理的问题。
“心系西雅图”的志愿者们在一辆卡车和丙烷罐旁合影。（“心系西雅图”供图）
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“你得看看州、县、市各级的做法：他们允许人们公开使用甲基苯丙胺和芬太尼等致命非法毒品，用纳税人的钱给你提供吸毒用具，允许人们在公共场所吸毒且不受任何惩罚……而我却在这边努力解决问题，清理狗狗公园、打扫儿童旋转木马，确保我们的游乐场里没有针头和锡纸从草丛里露出来，结果我反而成了被调查的对象，”苏亚雷斯说，“这双重标准简直令人发指。”
她还描绘了西雅图公共空间令人毛骨悚然的现状。
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“我打算向州政府讨个说法：‘当有瘾君子瘫在电脑椅上、在我们的卫生间里注射毒品、并将吸毒用具丢在周边区域，让我、我的孩子或是我的狗狗有机会接触到这些东西，感染血源性病原体时，你们为什么不提前对我进行培训？’对吧？”她说，“整个城市都存在血源性病原体感染风险，人人自危。我想这就是为什么人们不再愿意去这些公共场所，坦白说，这些地方已经被吸毒者彻底占领了。”
2022年3月14日，华盛顿州西雅图市中心，警察检查一名称自己在吸食芬太尼的男子。这种强效阿片类药物的使用量在过去几年激增，尤其是在西雅图庞大的无家可归者群体中。（约翰·摩尔/盖蒂图片社）
苏亚雷斯表示，她计划调查自己的团队是否遭到了不公平 targeting。她称自己在创立这个非营利组织之前相对不关心政治，但表示他们的清理工作越来越多地让组织卷入关于西雅图毒品和无家可归政策的政治争端中。
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金县为其伤害减少方法辩护，表示该政策旨在减少过量用药事件，同时将人们与治疗和其他服务联系起来。
“芬太尼的泛滥导致美国全境和金县的致命过量用药事件急剧上升。我们全面的过量用药应对和康复方案致力于让更多人接受治疗，预防更多过量用药事件发生，”发言人莎伦·博根说，并补充称该县2023年至2025年间的过量用药事件“整体呈现可喜的下降趋势，降幅达32%”。
西雅图市政府代表未回复置评请求。
彼得·达布罗斯卡是福克斯新闻数字频道的政治记者。
Blue-city drug gear exposes hypocrisy as cleanup group faces probe, leader cries foul
August 20, 2026 10:55am EDT / Fox News
Andrea Suarez says We Heart Seattle has logged more than 50,000 hours of service over seven years cleaning public spaces
By Peter D’Abrosca Fox News
We Heart Seattle founder Andrea Suarez blasts the ‘egregious’ optics of a blue-city drug policy that hands out needles and drug gear while her volunteer crew faces investigation for cleaning it up.
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The founder of a Seattle nonprofit that cleans up discarded drug paraphernalia distributed through city and county harm reduction programs says she was stunned to learn her organization is now under state investigation over how it handles those same supplies.
Andrea Suarez is the founder of We Heart Seattle. She rallies volunteers to pick up and dispose of needles, smoking supplies such as pipes and foil, and other drug-use items distributed through King County “harm reduction” programs. Critics argue the policies can enable continued drug use rather than moving people toward treatment and recovery.
“One of the biggest advocacy work I have done is that I go to the needle exchange and I get what they call the ‘party kit,’ and I demonstrated that our King County ‘Health’ Department is handing out cookers and tourniquets and glass pipes an paraphernalia to do drugs,” Suarez told Fox News Digital. “I was referring to this ‘party kit’ as a ‘suicide kit’ with very little, if no information on where to get medical detox.”
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Andrea Suarez cleans up drug paraphernalia with her organization We Heart Seattle.(We Heart Seattle)
Suarez has been working on her mission of cleaner streets, parks and playgrounds for seven years, and We Heart Seattle has logged more than 50,000 hours of volunteer service. Founded in 2020 as a solo operation, Suarez has built an army of hundreds of volunteers over the past six-and-a-half years.
The group is now facing a state workplace-safety investigation, which Suarez says is its first government probe.
We Heart Seattle is under investigation by the Washington Department of Labor & Industries following a complaint alleging “improper handling and collection of hypodermic needles and fentanyl paraphernalia,” according to documents sent to Suarez from the Washington Department of Labor & Industries and viewed by Fox News Digital.
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Suarez denied wrongdoing and said the group uses gloves, grabbers and sharps-disposal procedures, while pointing to safety guidance posted on We Heart Seattle’s website. That plan includes guiding supporters on what to wear to protect themselves from potential hazards, including wearing long pants and sleeves and closed-toed boots. The website also provides guidance for volunteers to stay safe while picking up debris.
Suarez argued there is a double standard in the state scrutinizing how her group handles discarded drug-use supplies while local harm reduction programs distribute some of the same types of materials.
Heroin syringes hang stuck in a tree at a homeless encampment on March 13, 2022 in Seattle, Washington.(John Moore/Getty Images)
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“We have been out here for … going on seven years every day, every weekend we’re out there picking up needles and trash. And for my ‘thank you’ letter from the government, it was this letter saying, ‘you’re under investigation for allegedly improperly handling this very equipment that they hand out with no instructions.”
Suarez said that after learning of the investigation, she visited a harm reduction site and asked for specific guidance on handling “fentanyl foil” and other dangerous drug supplies, but said staff did not provide her with such instructions.
The Washington Department of Labor & Industries told Fox News Digital that the investigation stems from a complaint made by someone outside of the organization.
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Spokesman Matt Ross said inspections can take up to six months, and that once complete, the results are made available to the public. He said there’s a related probe into a temporary staffing agency, but declined to provide specifics.
“Inspectors may issue violations if an organization isn’t meeting those requirements, and may also issue violations for other safety hazards they observe in the course of an inspection,” he said. “The inspectors also work with the organizations on the best way to address the hazards they find. Potential penalties will depend on the specifics of the violations.”
Suarez criticized state and local harm reduction policies, arguing they contribute to the conditions her volunteers are cleaning up.
We Heart Seattle volunteers pose for a photo next to a truck and propane gas tanks.(We Heart Seattle)
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“You have to look at the optics of a state, a county, a city level that allows people to openly use lethal and illegal narcotics like methamphetamines and fentanyl, and they give you the paraphernalia to use those drugs on our taxpayer dime, to use in public spaces with no consequences … and then I’m over hear trying to manage the problem, clean up our dog parks, clean up our children’s merry-go-rounds, ensuring our playgrounds don’t have needles and foil sticking up through the grass, and I’m the one under investigation,” said Suarez.
“The optics are egregious,” she said.
She also painted a gruesome picture of life in Seattle’s public spaces.
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“I think I’m going to go after the state to say, ‘why aren’t you training me before I go into our city library when there’s drug addicts slumped over in all of the computer chairs, using our bathrooms, shooting drugs and leaving their paraphernalia all around the perimeter, putting me or my child or dog at risk of picking something up and getting a blood borne pathogen infection of sorts,’ right?” she said. “So this whole city is a blood borne pathogen risk for everybody. I think that’s why people don’t go to these public places anymore, and they really frankly have been overtaken by drug users.”
Police officers check on a man who said he has been smoking fentanyl in downtown Seattle on March 14, 2022 in Seattle, Washington. Use of the powerful opioid has surged in the last several years, especially in Seattle’s large homeless community.(John Moore/Getty Images)
Suarez said she plans to look into whether her group was unfairly targeted. She described herself as relatively apolitical before starting the nonprofit, but said its cleanup work has increasingly drawn the organization into political disputes over Seattle’s drug and homelessness policies.
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King County defended its harm reduction approach, saying it is intended to reduce overdoses while connecting people with treatment and other services.
“The influx of fentanyl led to a sharp rise in fatal overdoses across the U.S and in King County. Our comprehensive approach to overdose response and recovery focuses on getting more people into treatment and preventing more overdoses,” spokesperson Sharon Bogan said, adding that the county saw a “promising overall decline in overdoses” of 32% between 2023 and 2025.
Representatives form the city of Seattle did not return a request for comment.
Peter D’Abrosca is a politics reporter at Fox News Digital.