Free Needles To Drug Users?
President Clinton recently voiced strong opposition to a proposal to distribute free needles to heroin users to fight the spread of AIDS, claiming that such a plan would only encourage drug use. What do you think?
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I've never really considered becoming a heroin addict, but if the needles are free, why not?
Joan Toth
Speech Pathologist -
As a dry cleaner, I say what we need to do is provide heroin users with one-hour needle martinizing.
Dry Cleaner
Craig Orr -
If we give out free needles to heroin addicts, how can we be sure diabetics won't take them and use them for their own purposes?
Joseph Funderburke
Lawyer -
The statistics show that heroin users who share needles have a very strong chance of getting really fucking high.
Ken Schwab
Systems Analyst -
As long as you aren't shooting up with homos, there shouldn't be any danger of catching the gay AIDS.
Elaine Steffens
Advertising Executive -
Giving needles to heroin addicts? What's next–calls anywhere in the continental U.S. at just 10 cents a minute?
Lucas Kingery
Biologist
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