Giving Clean Needles to Drug Users: Helps or Hurts?

Published June 25, 2013

Giving clean needles to drug users: Helps or hurts?

Filed under: drug abuse treatment programs

In my own state of Florida, one of the worst hit by AIDS, not a single publicly funded syringe exchange program – one that exchanges used needles for new ones to injection drug users — currently operates. As a minister, I am acutely … But in …
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Xinhua Insight: S China city pioneers drug treatment model

Filed under: drug abuse treatment programs

The possibility of disease transmission and patients' conditions worsening also deters rehabilitation centers from accepting diseased drug addicts. The widespread problem has become a headache for the Chinese government. Ahead of the International Day …
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Accused drug dealer at heart of courthouse scandal won't go to rehab

Filed under: drug abuse treatment programs

Sean D. McGilvery, 34, had sought treatment for heroin addiction at a residential drug treatment center. After completing the program, McGilvery wanted to be released under house arrest to live with his aunt in St. Louis. U.S. Magistrate Donald …
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