Farrell, now executive director of New York City’s bold harm-reduction organization Positive Health Project (PHP, www.positivehealthproject.org) says he grabbed a bunch of other recovering addicts and “went on a tear.” Pursuing HIV treatment on demand in a nonjudgmental setting (no “junkies need not apply” signs), he won Ryan White and CDC funding to screen and treat active drug users. In 1995, the state Health Department let PHP swap syringes at its current midtown location, which also offers primary health-care services, including HIV and STD testing and gynecological and dental care. Have the city’s druggies bitten? “Hell, yeah,” says Farrell, who describes the waiting room as overflowing with high-risk, hard-to-treat HIVers drawn by PHP’s “one-stop shopping.”