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Congress To Vote On Needle Exchange Ban, One Day After AIDS Activists' Protest


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How can the federal government ban needle exchange program

This should clearly be up to individual states

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:54 PM on 07/11/2009

Many of you think that the 'ban' is a good thing-
The problem is that even though the 'needles'
are targeting 'drug-users', these efforts, to reduce
the spread of many diseases helps and saves us all.
Innocent children might not be born with congenital problems,
someone in your family might not become infected with
HIV/AIDS, Hep. B/C, Syphillis and other diseases.
If we don't provide a 'safe' system for drug-users to get clean,
where do you think they will get the stuff they need??
Either from crimes on businesses, homes, in our parks
and placing a 'big glut' on our medical systems.
We need to 'grow-up' and learn to be more adult
in treating drug problems that have affected
our country for decades-

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:43 AM on 07/11/2009

Well done!

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:27 AM on 07/11/2009
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Excellent. Congress doing its job to ensure that these types of programs are sustainable through legislation. Excellent.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:50 PM on 07/10/2009
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why is it the taxpayers responsibility to provide needles to drug addicts? If we are going to do this because of public safety issues then why not pay for vehicle maintanence such as brakes? That could affect public safety. Why not have govt cabs that take people home from bars?

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:44 PM on 07/10/2009
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You are gross.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:54 PM on 07/10/2009

No, he makes a valid point, and offers a reasonable alternative.

Believe it or not, but many times RWM makes valid points. We may not agree with him entirely, but he makes an honest effort to explain his positions and offer ideas. Our country is well served by that.
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RWM,
Good idea, I would certainly use it often!

These addicts all learned in school about smack and how dangerous it is. They still chose to start doing it. I don't want to pay for their stoopidity (intentional).

Why don't we subsidize cigarettes? Instead, they just raise the taxes on smokers about 500% over the past 10 years. Same principle

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:03 PM on 07/10/2009

because needles are cheap and just because we can't prevent all unnecessary suffering doesn't mean we should do nothing.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:56 PM on 07/10/2009

And if the suffering is self-inflicted? We should start protecting people from themselves?

At what point do we stop?

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:00 PM on 07/10/2009

I'd support all of those measures. Why not?

Why is it that you right wingers seem to have such disdain for the government helping people, or doing anything that is actually beneficial to anyone?

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:02 PM on 07/10/2009
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Yipes you care little.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:44 AM on 07/11/2009
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Let me ask you this. As a taxpayer, would you rather help fund the clean needle exchange at a much lower cost to the taxpayer, or take a chance on the spread of HIV/AIDS, Hep C, MRSA, and any other disease that will cost the taxpayers BILLIONS (with a B) to cover the drugs to treat these life long diseases?

I vote for the clean needle exchange.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:11 PM on 07/11/2009
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