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Newshawk: http://www.drugpolicy.org/about/stateoffices/newjersey/chnj/
Pubdate: Wed, 07 Jun 2006
Source: Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, NJ)
Copyright: 2006 Home News Tribune
Contact:
Website: http://www.thnt.com/hnt/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/825
Author: Richard Khavkine
Cited: Drug Policy Alliance http://www.drugpolicy.org
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?137 (Needle Exchange)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/states/nj/ (New Jersey)
NEEDLE-EXCHANGE PROGRAMS CAN HELP N.J. REDUCE SPREAD OF AIDS
The evidence is incontrovertible. Study after study conducted since
the early 1990s show that needle-exchange programs greatly reduce the
spread of HIV and AIDS among intravenous drug users.
Despite that evidence -- culled from research by the Department of
Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, the National Academy of Sciences, the General Accounting
Office and the World Health Organization, among other agencies --
some of New Jersey's political class stubbornly refuse to institute a
mechanism that would allow and encourage users to trade their used
needles for new ones. And cut down on the state's abysmally high rate
of HIV and AIDS.
New AIDS cases among intravenous drug users nationwide have declined
dramatically in the past 13 years, according to the CDC, attributable
at least in part to increased use of clean needles. New Jersey's AIDS
rate for IV drug users, though, is about twice the national average,
according to the Drug Policy Alliance.
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MAP posted-by: Richard Lake
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