I remember hearing a nun many years ago in Africa address this issue. She said the only way it wil stop is for people to abstain from promiscuous behavior, whether sexual or otherwise. That’s the old way.
“But last week, taking a brief respite from antagonizing gays...”
The writer is an idiot.
Not just for the above attempt at pith, but in that he believes an increase from 5 to 80 is due to the lack of needle exchange.
As he sows so shall he reap. These are Pences new BFFs.
(Can't blame this one on the victimized Christians, that's for sure.)
Why aren’t there subsidized needles or free needle exchanges for diabetics? Why only drug abusers? Why do diabetics even need a prescription for needles when the government gives them to dopers?
Figure1: Estimated New HIV Infections in the United States, 2010, for the Most Affected Subpopulations
"What's more, federal laws forbid the use of federal funds to pay for them "
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponents Argument
I suppose that it shouldnt be surprising to see a federal law that actually compliments the fact that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for new syringes.
Regardless, this issue suggests that federal lawmakers, especially Senators, are at least thinking that they have the constitutional authority to tax and spend for such purposes imo.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.
Keep it in your pants. Don’t do drugs. Prevent people with HIV/AIDS from donating blood. 100% effective methods.
That’s right, encourage/enable behavior that is spreading the disease, the Leftist way.
Why don’t we just give people who like to play Russian Roulette revolvers with more chambers in the cylinders?
Send all the heroin junkies to an island and let them die there.