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Subject: Drugs
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Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 21:44:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 11 21:44:19 1986
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    From: king@kestrel.ARPA (Dick King)

         I read a few weeks ago that a 4 year old kid playing on the
       front steps of his apartment downtown pricked himself on a
       discarded needle.
       He got AIDS apparently from that needle.
         If drugs and drug paraphernalia had been widely available
       this would not have happened.

    Why?  Freely available needles would never be discarded?

  If needles were freely available people wouldn't have to share
them.  Thus drug users would not get AIDS.  Thus someone pricked
by a discarded needle wouldn't get AIDS.
                                                              ...Keith

[ Say what?  AIDS is not gotten on needles by a group of people using
a needle.  It takes exactly one AIDS sufferer to infect a needle.  If
its clean before infection, its just as contaminated.  - CWM]
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