Monday, September 4, 2017

Exchanging Needles

Here is a common US activity - exchanging needles:

All day long, the users of Alaska's biggest syringe exchange arrive carrying detergent jugs and Gatorade bottles stuffed with used needles.

Some come in shiny trucks, others in beat-up vehicles. Some cruise up to the quiet office building on bikes. Some walk, sweating and chilled from withdrawals. A few arrive in work clothes, as if they've stepped out from an office or a construction site. Others wear pajamas.

Unless you're an injection drug user or you work or live nearby, you might never realize that more than 100 Alaskans come to this building on Fireweed Lane every weekday to pick up clean needles and other supplies for injection drug use.

You can read the rest @
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2017/09/02/exploding-demand-for-clean-needles-pushes-alaskas-biggest-syringe-exchange-to-the-edge/

Would a healthy society need such a thing? I think not.

The US is a "death state", and our preoccupation with things like illegal drugs, violence, death, and "burning man" seems to prove it.

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