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The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors’ fierce defense of its illegal ordinance against science-based needle exchange programs seems less about public health and more about a culture war ...
A Bronx council member wants to force the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to pick up used drug needles that were handed out as part of the city's needle exchange programs.
Sep. 29—An ordinance amendment proposed by Mayor Jay Ruais to address concerns over needle exchange programs and improper disposal of syringes on city streets and in parks will go before ...
Syringe-exchange programme (SEP), needle exchange program (NEP) [ edit on Wikidata ] A needle and syringe programme ( NSP ), also known as needle exchange program ( NEP ), is a social service that allows injection drug users (IDUs) to obtain clean and unused hypodermic needles and associated paraphernalia at little or no cost.
Syringe exchange programs (SEPs), syringe services programs (SSPs), or needle exchange programs (NEPs), involve the implementation of safe used syringe disposal as well as access to clean syringes. [8] Intravenous drug use places the user at an increased risk of contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as well as hepatitis C virus (HCV). [9]
According to a study done by New Haven Connecticut's needle exchange program, 67.5% of the needles returned to the facility were contaminated with HIV. [9] Their assumption was that people bringing in “street needles” were shared among other people prior to bringing them to the program. [9]
El Dorado County cannot enforce its ban on programs that hand out clean syringes as a legal battle continues between the county and the California Department of Public Health, a Superior Court ...
Needle exchange programs provide people who inject substances with new needles and injection equipment to reduce the harm (e.g., HIV infection) from needle drug use. Drug paraphernalia available from a harm reduction NGO at a mobile supervised injection site in Berlin, Germany.