“Evangelism…underlies most of the politics against needle exchange. To give someone a needle or methadone is seen as giving up on the idea that they can be ‘saved,’ and as a moral failure…. The moral reality of leaving drug users to die of HIV because you refuse to adjust this vision of redemption…goes unexamined.”
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—Daniel Wolfe, deputy director, International Harm Reduction Development program, quoted in In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, by Gabor Maté, MD (Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2010)
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