AIDS knowledge and AIDS care here have not progressed much beyond what was known in NYC in 1985, but the availability of medical services also limits the availability of drugs on the street to psychoactive ones - beyond the three basic powders, this is limited to a few benzodiazepines and barbiturates. The antibiotics and AIDS medications offered by street dealers in NYC are only to be found on prescription in Rotterdam. Nor is the exotic world of drug-related slang a characteristic of this drug scene. My impressive lexicon of drug terminology serves me no purpose here, and there's no need to build another. One can hear more argot for sex organs, sex acts and money than for drugs, drug users or drug use.
Daily life provides exercise enough so fat people are as rare a sight as gym-membership cards.
The average diet is good enough to make vitamin popping a behaviour of only the faddish or the j under-nourished lower class. Children, dogs, and occasionally adults, are offered free tastes of sausage, cheese and cookies at their respective shops. Drug dealing occurs by and large indoors. Shop clerks often permit customers to taste the cheese, nuts, salami, olives, candy or powder drugs before buying, and should one fail to be satisfied with a particular product, it can be returned and replaced. Don't expect bagels, Hagen Daas or pizza by the slice, but if you want to try your hand at street health education, I couldn't think of a softer, safer, friendlier place to work.