Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Vending Machine (good times in Zurich)

In Switzerland they see drug abuse as more of a medical concern than a criminal act. Thats why they have these nifty little vending machines in big cities. Its important that drug users have clean needles, because the risk of spreading HIV and other stuff would be a bigger concern to us than the actual abuse of the drugs in itself. For 2 bucks a user gets a couple of clean needles, some alcohol swabs, saline, and ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) which is used to help dissolve the junk into a solution that can be used. I picked up a box, since for 2 bucks it was the cheapest souvenir I was going to find in Zurich...

1 comment:

Jamie said...

Get a couple of those for me, will ya?