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Should the government fund needle exchange programs?

No, that would not be a productive program at all, it would never lead to a positive goal.The idea which our tax paying dollars, every American works hard for should go to pay for a needle exchange program is ridiculous and absurd. This is all we need to add to our deficit , mounting high every minute of our day. If the government has the money to invest in a drug program, then it should be to get rid of the drugs, not to enable people to continue using them. How is that suppose to help? The next thing which will be expected, is a program to fund clean drugs for drug addicts, so they do not have to buy off the streets. Now, isn't that just as silly?

In other parts of the world, like Amsterdam, where drug use is a legal matter and not an enforced crime, there is out of control drug use. There are people sticking themselves with drugs on the streets in front of you. There are syringes on the sidewalks, in the canals. Letting drug users do drugs, does not help at all. This is also a place where crime is on the rise.

We should continue to work for a goal of a making America as drug free as possible. We should not settle for anything less than drug use becoming non-existent in our country, or in our world. Maybe it is a pipe dream to expect it will happen but the possibility of it coming very close to the goal, is real. If we have a government funded program to hand out needles for the drug users, it only demeans what has been most important.

Drug users have a problem, we can not force them for help but we do not have to accept it either. You may think someone using drugs does not affect you in your life, but it does. Drug users are not just the ones you may see sitting homeless in the alleys, drug users are everywhere. We work with them,we live across the streets from them and our children play together outside, the drug users handle our accounts at our banks, they teach our children and eventually, our children are influenced in this chain, which will only continue on to their children as the years progress. The performance of drug abuse, continues on.

But if we say we will not take this anymore. No drug abuse is allowed. People go to rehab, people go to jail, especially the ones who sell, is the only way to fight back. It will never be a completely 'clean' country, or world we will live in. I wish it could. But we can not give up and actually pay taxes, from our hard earn money, in order to hand out the clean needles for the druggies. This is no help to them and will hurt our children and their future to come. And this is a struggle, we must never give up or give in. The free needle program is not accomplishing anything. It would be a total waste of money.

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