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Critics of the needle giveaway point out that it places city government legally at odds with itself. Says Sterling Johnson, New York City's special prosecutor for narcotics: "To give an addict a needle to shoot drugs is facilitating a crime." New York Archbishop John Cardinal O'Connor, a member of the presidential AIDS commission, blasts the proposal as an "act born in desperation that drags down the standards of all society." Moreover, he strongly questions "whether it will accomplish its purpose," inasmuch as the free needles will probably be shared...
...needle-exchange programs in the Netherlands, Scotland and Australia tend to encourage that view. Since 1984 an estimated 70% of the 15,000 drug addicts in the Netherlands have registered in treatment programs, which allow health authorities to maintain regular contact with them for AIDS testing and counseling. The underlying strategy of New York health officials is similar. Says Commissioner Axelrod: "Our needle-exchange program has nothing to do with needles and syringes. The needle gets the addict in so we can educate and counsel." Still, some wonder if the project will even begin to curb the AIDS epidemic among...
...sent to convent school by her parents after they divorced. She was in her teens when, in 1964, she dropped plans to attend Cambridge University and hit the pop scene. Six years later, she had left Mick Jagger and developed a heavy habit. "I was a registered heroin addict," she says. "I lived on the streets for two years." She went through periods when she managed to reclaim herself, others when she just gave up. Two marriages shattered. Sometimes she would make an album or try a tour. Sometimes she beat her habit, and sometimes it beat her. Finally, after...
...celebrate their radically new "at least he wasn't an addict" philosophy, the Reagans hosted a pot party at the White House. They greeted the press in tie-dyed shirts and peace-sign necklaces...
...sight of President Reagan defending Ginsburg's previous indulgences as making him something less than "an addict" and no less qualified to sit on the Supreme Court is no small cause for glee among those long ago deadened to the hypocrisy of the Reagan Administration and its leader. This is an Administration whose Justice Department has had a long-standing policy against hiring in any law-enforcement capacity anyone who admits on their job application to ever having tried pot. Which perhaps explains why when the ambitious Ginsburg was asked the $64,000 question when filling out application forms...