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Many architects attending the RIBA conference must have thought the UV lighting in the toilets awfully trendy. They were audible gasps then when speaker, and Gillespies partner, Brian Evans told the audience that the lighting is actually a tactic to deter heroin addicts because it prevents them “finding a vein”. ...

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