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Exchange means exchange, not handing out needles

Not having a closet full of degree stuff, I am easily confused but it seems to me that "exchange" means I will exchange with you something of equal value. I will exchange one dollar with you for four quarters.
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Not having a closet full of degree stuff, I am easily confused but it seems to me that "exchange" means I will exchange with you something of equal value. I will exchange one dollar with you for four quarters.

So my confusion lays in the Northern Health Needle Exchange Program.

Do I give them my used needle and they exchange it for a new one? Or do they just hand out needles? I think Brian Skakun's "one for one " suggestion goes hand in hand with the idea of the "needle exchange program."

One needle handed in, one needle exchanged.

My thoughts are outdated I know (I'm 84) but I still have the tendency to think if you get yourself into it, get yourself out of it.

I like the old author's quote "prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child."

'Nuff said.

Robert Madson

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