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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Fresno's Illegal Needle Exchange Program Booms Despite Law

For 15 years, Dr. Marc Lasher has been hitting the streets of Fresno, Calif., on Saturday mornings in a school bus-turned-medical clinic, collecting used syringes and handing out sterile ones to addicts who need them.
And that's only a piece of it. Lasher and his volunteer staff also provide basic medical care to addicts who visit the bus, and give out referral information for detox and treatment centers in the area.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

how about give the addicts cyanide-filled needles and do the world a REAL favor.

Anonymous said...

how about give the addicts cyanide-filled needles and do the world a REAL favor.

September 21, 2011 11:37 AM

Let's do the world an even bigger favor and give them to jerks like you.

tmills said...

The key phrase in the article: the doctor says, "Lets get morals out of the way..."