About Needle Exchange?

How does it work?

Like do they offer needles to drugs addicts because they can't afford to buy a new one? Are those drug addicts re using the drug instruments that's why they contract hepatitis C and how do some get an HIV if drug addicts are not into sexual life, "I mean they are high all the time?"

I'm STUPID and I have a very low IQ and I need to understand this.


When u share needle means ur sharing the dam drug?

considering that they are drug addicts they probably spend all their money on drugs, so no money for fresh bongs or needles, never the less i don't think that Hygiene is a great concern when you are high

sticking a needle into an infected arm and then into yours is a shure disease spreader

if one hep C or HIV strand is mixed into your blood it starts multiplying, ensuring that you are infected

Basically, the reason for needle exchange programs is because it's the lesser of two evils. You don't only get HIV from sex, you know. Sharing needles is BAD!!!! If someone is infected with HIV and you're sharing needles, you run an extremely high risk of becoming infected yourself. The organizations that provide needle exchanges do so not because they want people to stay addicted, but because if you're going to use, they don't want the HIV virus, AIDS, or like you said, Hep C to become more widely spread. If you use, and share needles, please please stop. If you use and know of an organization that does needle exchange, please see them. Likewise for your friends. Also, sounds like you could use some education about infectious disease. They might be able to help you there, as well.

Some places have exchanges where a user brings in their old needles for new ones to prevent the exchange of such diseases. You may share the drug, but often what happens is when the first person uses, a little of their blood goes into the needle, so the next person injects a little of the other person's blood into theirs.

diseases can be transfered by blood and if you share a needle, its practically like sharing blood, not a good thing