And The Final Jeopardy Answer Is ...
"It single-handedly accounts for the fact that the District [of Columbia] has the No. 1 AIDS rate in the country"
If you asked: "What is engaging in risky sexual behavior?" or "What is injecting illicit drugs intervenously" you would be wrong, wrong wrong!
According to Eleanor Holmes Norton, DC's non-voting representative in Congress, the reason is the lack of a hypodermic needle exchange program in the District. The Washington Times has the details HERE.
It is like a person saying "I keep fracturing my skull because I continually hit it with this big hammer" and DC saying that the solution is to give that person a smaller hammer.
When will people realize that the way to solve the problem is to change the behavior which causes the problem? Just wondering.
