Needle exchange - Chicago Tribune Letter to the Editor by Carlos T Mock
Needle exchange - Chicago Tribune Letter to the Editor by Carlos T Mock
June 21, 2007
As a physician I was always told that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It is always better to inoculate the patient with a vaccine, for example, than to treat the disease.
Not only is it easier on the patients, it is also easier on the wallet.
In a country that is running annual deficits that would scare even the most liberal congressional spender, Steve Chapman comes with a rational approach to a moral conundrum.
Whatever your views on the illegal drug problem currently affecting our nation, needle exchange makes sense in more ways than one.
Chapman forgets to mention that hepatitis B and C are transmitted in the same fashion and they are currently costing the health-care system twice what we spend on HIV.
Not only that, but hepatitis C is killing more Americans every year than HIV/AIDS does.
Carlos T. Mock, MD
Chicago
June 21, 2007
As a physician I was always told that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It is always better to inoculate the patient with a vaccine, for example, than to treat the disease.
Not only is it easier on the patients, it is also easier on the wallet.
In a country that is running annual deficits that would scare even the most liberal congressional spender, Steve Chapman comes with a rational approach to a moral conundrum.
Whatever your views on the illegal drug problem currently affecting our nation, needle exchange makes sense in more ways than one.
Chapman forgets to mention that hepatitis B and C are transmitted in the same fashion and they are currently costing the health-care system twice what we spend on HIV.
Not only that, but hepatitis C is killing more Americans every year than HIV/AIDS does.
Carlos T. Mock, MD
Chicago
posted by Carlos T Mock @ 7:50 AM
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