well, I'm average educated person with some life experience...... How does preventing drug addicts from cleen needles prevent the spread of AIDS.?? big ?
Hope you caught the sarcasim in my words.....
come on now Bush.. how fn dumb are you ?
The policy drew criticism from Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America, the group that last year blasted the pediatricians' academy for its support of over-the-counter emergency contraception.
"The recommendation will not rescue patients and neither does it promote healthy behavior," Wright said. "Instead, they have been promoting programs that encourage riskier activities."
The new policy statement says of needle exchange programs, which let addicts trade dirty syringes for clean ones: "Pediatricians should advocate for unencumbered access to sterile syringes and improved knowledge about decontamination of injection equipment."
The beefed-up wording is based on research showing the programs reduce HIV infection, said Dr. Peter Havens of the Medical College of Wisconsin, a member of the committee that wrote the policy. Needle exchange programs can include counseling to further reduce risky behavior, but opponents say they work against efforts to fight drug abuse.
Congress has banned federal funding of needle exchange programs, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says they can reduce the spread of disease without increasing drug use.
Thirty-six states and the District of Columbia have needle exchange programs, according to the nonprofit North American Syringe Exchange Network.
