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From: dkonerding@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Raphael Juarez)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Question: Should Syrings be given to IV drug users?
Message-ID: <5759@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 90 11:30:56 GMT
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In article <50900@bbn.COM>, cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:
> }Well, Shane, as a study we read for a class last year put it, in
> }Holland, once they gave out free needles to heroin users, they noted a
> }decrease in the number of new users as well as an increase in the
> }number of people who sought out help.  i think that providing a
> }service such as free needles goes a long way toward making people feel
> }wanted and needed again.
	Hmm, I'd have to flame to answer that one.
> Rather than having our tax dollars going to buy syringes, how about
> having the first step be just to have the gov't stop interfering?
	I have only one thing to say: if the government provides free syringes
to drug users, they must also provide free condoms to teenagers (and anyone
else who wants them).  Being a teen in high school, I know that there's a lot
of sex-- more than most parents and government officials-- going on.  Although
we hear little about teens with AIDS, there's a large potential there, due to
the enormous promiscuity.

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Raphael Juarez
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