davidjosephscott pardon my fannying about with 'nonsensical metaphors' it still feels rather odd to talk about HEROIN on a forum and not have to say things like SWIM or 'my cat was doing x,y,z the other day' for legal reasons... But, at your request, I shall refer to it by it's 'proper' name ie the one YOU choose to use for it, as apposed to it's medical name diacetylmorphine or the various 'street names' horse, brown,h, black, tar or even 'golden girl'
I suggest you channel your angst into something productive, a letter for example. Why not write to your local MP, let him know that you're fed up of those low lives getting freebies on your dime and that you'd much prefer they were forced to pay the £5 just like you had to and, should the inevitable happen and they choose to share needles, you believe tax payers money would be better spent on treating hepatitis and on medicating AIDS sufferers, than on needle exchange programs!
The notion that all those given free needles discard them 'at will' is utter nonsense! Not least because one of the main aims of the NSPs (needle and syringe programmes) is to reduce the amount of paraphernalia on the streets by giving participants sharps boxes for their used needles and educating them on the dangers of blood-borne pathagens! It's more likely that the needles you come across were not paid for by you...
Heaven forbid you'd fall from your high horse and land in a pit of drug induced despair. But, should it happen, I WILL show you compassion and understanding, because I'll know just how hard it is to be judged, by inhuman c*nts like you, as the lowest of the low!
oh and FYI my daddy did buy me a bike, it was pink and had spokey-dokeys
My doctor however didn't warn me how addictive pain killers were after my accident, or the lengths I would go to once he cut me off and I was desperate!
Yours sincerely
ex-lowlife!