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...Haven, unfortunately, had all the right ingredients. The city of 130,000 surrounding Yale University is the seventh poorest in America. The community is 45% black, 15% Hispanic and 40% white, and with 2,000 heroin addicts, it has roughly the same proportion of addicts as New York City...
...epidemic that is raging through their city. "Just because I shoot drugs doesn't mean I don't care about AIDS. I care a lot," says a petite white woman, 45, who works as an executive assistant. That's right, says a dope dealer known as "Philip Morris": "Heroin don't make you retarded...
...doesn't, but for years the acrimonious debate over how to protect heroin users has impeded efforts by health authorities to control the spread of AIDS. Civic leaders have been caught up in moralistic arguments over whether providing clean needles to addicts would only accelerate inner-city drug abuse. In minority communities, opponents insisted that needle handouts were akin to genocide. Meanwhile, AIDS raced through intravenous-drug-using populations. Today one-third of the nation's AIDS cases originate from IV drug use. More specifically, 71% of all females with AIDS are linked directly or indirectly to IV drug...
...convicted armed robber, remembers thinking the van was part of a police sting operation. "You're not used to nobody helping you and wanting nothing in return," he says. Eventually, outreach workers in the van helped him apply to a treatment program to end his 16-year addiction to heroin. To date, more than 200 addicts have been funneled through the van and into drug- treatment programs. Nonaddicts have also turned to the van for help. Teenagers flag it down and ask for condoms. It has, in a sense, become one of the few visible expressions of the city...
...major goal of the program has been to get contaminated needles out of heroin shooting galleries, where, according to one New Haven study, more than 90% of needles are contaminated with the AIDS virus. Addicts in these galleries can "rent" recycled needles either for money or for an exchange of drugs. After each use, addicts clean the needles in a pail of water set out every morning by the operator. The water starts out clear, but it is bloodred by afternoon. "We don't know who all got the virus," admits the proprietor . of one such establishment. By exchanging needles...