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Newshawk: Herb
Pubdate: Tue, 02 Aug 2005
Source: San Mateo County Times, The (CA)
Copyright: 2005 ANG Newspapers
Contact:
http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87%257E2524%257E,00.html
Website: http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/392
Author: Stephanie Woodrow, Correspondent
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?143 (Hepatitis)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?137 (Needle Exchange)
SUPES APPROVE PLAN FOR NEEDLE SALES
Pharmacies Would Need No Prescription To Sell Hypodermics In Order To Curb
Virus Transmission
REDWOOD CITY -- Later this year, drug users will have more access to clean
needles thanks to the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors' approval of a
resolution to allow pharmacies to sell up to 10 hypodermic needles at a
time to buyers without a prescription.
A new provision of the state Business and Professions Code created the
Disease Prevention Demonstration Project, enabling the county to authorize
licensed pharmacists to sell the unprescribed needles through the end of 2010.
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MAP posted-by: Beth
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