>>Excuse me -- he did not CREATE the AIDS outbreak, he just made it substantially worse (along with Hepatitis C).
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>Still incorrect, but thanks for playing :)
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>He did not make it substantially worse. The articles have misrepresented the time period.
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>But beyond that, it was more than 10 years into the 21st century, not 1985. There's this little concept of "assumed liability" and "personal responsibility" with regard to IV drug users. If you're going to make an argument that passing out clean needles reduces HIV transmission, you have to also acknowledge that it also INCREASES opioid addiction (among other things)

I have never seen a study that shows needle exchange programs actually increase drug use - but there have been plenty that show such programs reduce the transmission of blood-borne disease.
All I find is that SEP programs don't increase drug use???
https://www.amfar.org/uploadedFiles/_amfarorg/Articles/On_The_Hill/2013/fact%20sheet%20Syringe%20Exchange%20031413.pdf

>And sadly, the point that Pence tried to make about personal behavior (which, on this specific topic, I agree with him on) got twisted into another media lie that he pushed for "pray the gay away therapy"