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Newshawk: Making the News: http://drugsense.org/url/26hKGuI9
Webpage: http://www.modbee.com/local/story/906733.html
Pubdate: Sun, 25 Oct 2009
Source: Modesto Bee, The (CA)
Copyright: 2009 The Modesto Bee
Contact:
Website: http://www.modbee.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/271
Author: Merrill Balassone
Cited: District Attorney Birgit Fladager http://www.stanislaus-da.org/
Cited: Sheriff Adam Christianson http://stanislaussheriff.net/
Cited: Board of Supervisors http://www.co.stanislaus.ca.us/board/index.shtm
Cited: Harm Reduction Coalition http://www.harmreduction.org/
Cited: Assistant District Attorney Carol Shipley
http://www.stanislaus-da.org/about-us.shtm
Cited: Needle Exchange Programs
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/aids/Pages/OASyringeAccess.aspx
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/hr.htm (Harm Reduction)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?137 (Needle Exchange)
ACTIVISTS EARN SELVES NICKNAME
Mono Park in Modesto's airport neighborhood has earned some dirty
nicknames. Needle Park, for the used hypodermic syringes on the
ground, in the nearby alleys and stuck into trees. Or Heroin Park.
Now, the park has given its name to the "Mono Park Two" -- Kristy
Tribuzio, 36, and Brian Robinson, 37 -- arrested for handing out
clean needles to drug addicts who shoot up methamphetamine and heroin there.
They face up to a year in jail for doing what they believe is a
public health service: preventing people from sharing needles and
curbing the spread of HIV and hepatitis C.
[Remainder snipped]
MAP posted-by: Richard Lake
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