Here’s big news for heroin users on campus: A group is now offering needle exchanges for anyone who would like to bring their dirty needles in and exchange them for clean ones.

There is an epidemic of heroin users on the Bakersfield College campus, so high that a concerned group has funded a needle-exchange program. They decided that this was a good idea, so that they can keep intravenous diseases to a minimum. This program is completely funded by the students with the fee paid for health care.

“We should all do our part to help drug addicts, ” said Lawrence Fishburne, BC health worker. The way this will work is this: the student brings in dirty needles in a brown paper lunch bag, and the untrained nurses will hand him or her a Taco Bell bag full of syringes. Then the student can be on his or her way to do heroin without worrying about pesky AIDS or hepatitis.

“We want everyone to feel welcome and satisfied with how we take care of them,” said Joe Needleman of the group. The main expectations of this program are just to keep everyone safe and happy with their drug use.

“The staff will do everything in their power and a little outside of their power to make everything work out,” said Needleman. The needle exchange program will start April 1 and end at midnight.