Imagine you are the pilot of a plane traveling to an exciting new destination. At the start of the journey the plane takes off and soars high into the sky where you feel like you are on top of the world, looking down on all the beauty below you. On the way to your destination you are anxious and full of excitement awaiting the new journey you are about to experience when suddenly your plane starts shaking and you find yourself losing control. At this point you have two options: you can try to change course to regain control and overcome the turbulence, or you can continue with what you're doing and let the plane spiral into the ground in a fiery crash. This scenario is similar to the life of a drug addict, especially a drug addict. In the beginning of addiction, a person may feel in control, powerful, and free; however, they are actually not free at all. In reality, they are just starting down an unknown and shaky path, dedicating most of their resources to efforts to secure the next solution. One way to encourage and help addicts is to provide them with resources to enable them to continue self-destruction and lead them down the path that ends in a violent crash instead of redirecting their course toward a more positive outcome. These resources are provided through needle exchange programs. Needle exchange programs exist throughout the United States where drug users can dispose of old syringes and exchange them for new sterile ones (Khan 1). The needle exchange program is morally wrong and should be banned in the United States because of its implicit encouragement of intravenous drug use, its creation of problems within communities, its use of taxpayer money to support the demand... paper... distributors and manufacturers of controlled substances increase their profits and are encouraged to seek new markets ("Needle exchange programs may not reduce HIV transmission" 1). Overall, a needle exchange program goes against all ethics and moral practices. This program's implicit encouragement of intravenous drug use, the creation of problems within communities, the use of taxpayer money to support required funding, and the failure to achieve its goal of decreasing HIV transmission through needle sharing are all supporters of its moral violations and present a solid case for why it should be banned in the United States. The program only postpones the inevitable demise of the addict and sends the wrong message to society as a whole. A needle exchange program is the wrong response to drug abuse that spells potential disaster.