Would you rather save lives and save money — or make a political point? Sadly, when the question involves the issue of clean needle programs, the choice to “send a message” always seems to win.
The provision of clean needles to drug addicts is one of the most effective known interventions in the entire field of public health. Nonetheless, the budget agreement reached this week in Congress reinstates a federal ban, which had been removed in 2009, on funding for such programs.
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It shouldn't be up to the tax payer to supply drug paraphernalia to drug addicts.
This is just another reason why people in this country need to wake up and realize, there is NO WAR ON DRUGS!
If there was, we wouldn't be supplying ANYTHING to the addicts!
You awake now???
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