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Junkies and speedfreaks of San Francisco, don’t share needles, Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, 1980s
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Junkies and speedfreaks of San Francisco, don’t share needles, Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, 1980s
Drug users faced a powerful stigma as a group that willingly engaged in behavior perceived as dangerous and deadly. In calling these groups by their common insults, “junkies and speedfreaks,” this prevention poster was honest about what kept people healthy. Curbing drug use might have been impossible, but not sharing needles, represented here by the red “I” in AIDS, would have a tremendous harm-reducing effect.