How An HIV Outbreak Changed Trump’s Surgeon General Nominee

“People think that if you give someone a syringe, it means they’re going to go out and inject drugs, and if you don’t give them syringes, they won’t inject drugs,” Robert Childs, executive director of the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, told HuffPost in 2015. “But the thing is that if you don’t give them syringes, they share them, and then people will start getting HIV and viral hepatitis C.”