The other day I talked about the amount of wedding bills piled up by your typical couple on their special day. About a week ago, I went into the lifestyles that seem so prevalent these days. When was it, exactly, that our lives changed so much that they revolved around these material things?
Was it when the bumper stickers first told us that The One Who Dies With the Most Toys Wins? Or perhaps when Madonna first regaled us with Material Girl?
An excerpt from a letter published in the September 3 issue of Creative Loafing:
One program which would at least help to reduce the spread of HIV would be a clean-needle program -- the distribution of unused, sterile syringes to anyone, no questions asked. As a former public health nurse, I know that these supplies are cheap and easy to obtain....I have had the onerous task of informing a 19-year-old girl that she was HIV positive, and I'm betting she was already well aware of its causes. For her it was (she said) a contaminated needle. Twenty-five cents or so from a local health department for a clean syringe could have spared her this devastating news. -- Amy Keith, RN, Charlotte
