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Needle Exchange program
Needle Exchange program -- Posted by James Hoyt on 06-18-04 13:52
Atlantic City, N.J., City Council Approves Needle-Exchange Program
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=24279
[Jun 18, 2004]
The Atlantic City, N.J., City Council on Wednesday approved 7-1 a
proposal to implement the state's first needle-exchange program, the
AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports (Curran, AP/Philadelphia Inquirer, 6/17).
The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General in May said that the proposed
program does not have the legal authority to operate. Atlantic City Health
and Human Services Director Ron Cash had discussed implementing a
needle-exchange program through city-run mobile health clinics, saying that
the city's authority to begin such a program was based on a 1999 amendment
that exempts government agencies from a section of state law that
criminalizes needle and syringe possession. However, state Attorney General
Peter Harvey (D) reviewed the law and determined that it allows government
agencies to distribute needles and syringes only to people with
prescriptions (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 6/14). The council authorized
Atlantic City health officials to distribute syringes to injection drug
users to help curb the spread of blood borne illnesses, including HIV and
hepatitis C, according to the AP/Inquirer. Cash said that the program --
which will distribute needles through a van that already provides medical
services in the community -- could be operational by the fall, the
AP/Inquirer reports.
Reaction
Several supporters of the program say that because one in every 40 people in
the city is HIV-positive, there should be a government initiative to prevent
injection drug users from sharing or reusing syringes, according to the
AP/Inquirer. City Council President Craig Callaway said, "This is the moral,
human and correct thing to do." Alison McCray, a syringe-exchange program
coordinator for Prevention Point Philadelphia who attended the city council
vote, said that since Philadelphia launched its needle-exchange program in
1991, HIV incidence in the city has fallen dramatically, the AP/Inquirer
reports. She added, "It's a public health issue that affects the entire
population." However, some opponents say that the program "encourag[es] or
condon[es] high-risk behavior" among drug users, according to the
AP/Inquirer. Atlantic County Prosecutor Jeffrey Blitz and some state
officials have said they will take action to enforce the state's law
prohibiting needle distribution, the AP/Inquirer reports (AP/Philadelphia
Inquirer, 6/17). New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey (D) has said he supports
needle-exchange programs only in hospital-based settings (Kaiser Daily
HIV/AIDS Report, 6/14).
Provide by http://aids-hepatitisc.org/
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