It's been proven that a person is not going to become sexually active if they're given a condom. If they are sexually active, they are going to continue to be sexually active, whether or not they're given condoms. The same misconception exists with needle exchange. If we want condoms to be made available to young people, we are labeled immoral because we're somehow condoning sexuality. It is a very objective stance.
People are very moralistic about drug users, but our stance is the same.
We recognize that people are using drugs and we're not judging them one way or another. You spend hours and hours talking about this, trying to get the word out, educating people, speaking to groups of people. But sometimes it's as if you never said anything. That is precisely what happened with the defeat of needle exchange at the Community Board 2 meeting. Suddenly they're saying that we're going to site it in Ocean Breeze, which is in the middle of the island.