Once morality and virtue were considered pro-social behaviors. Children were counseled to stay far away from trouble. Now, you can get addicted and wasted on controlled substances as long as, as long as, . . . Oh, read it yourself:
[Mannie] Manning was in jail in Durham awaiting trial when he met [Tessie Swope Castillo] of the Harm Reduction Coalition. Castillo spoke to him about the debilitating effects the drug he was selling [heroin] had on individual users and the community. Castillo offered him the chance to do outreach work in some of the same neighborhoods where he used to peddle dope. He jumped at the chance. . . .
Now at least three days a week, Manning straps on a backpack filled with condoms and hands them and other safe-sex materials out to residents in Durham neighborhoods that may have little or no access to resources to help diminish the direct or indirect effects of heroin abuse.
