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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.
Needle exchange programs are one part of addressing drug use and addiction through harm reduction, a practice of abating the dangers of drug addiction without requiring abstinence from a substance.
Health and Welfare reimbursed exchange program purchases. Health and Welfare Program Manager Monica Young said in the report that the passage of the Needle Exchange Act in 2019, which allowed ...
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 ...
The needle exchange program offered through Outside In and Multnomah County was the subject of a grievance by the adjacent neighborhood Goose Hollow Foothills League due to concerns that needles handed out by Outside In are littered in Goose Hollow by its drug addict clients. The neighborhood association sent a letter on the matter of needles ...
In the United States, there are three distinct prohibitions on needle exchange programs at the federal level—the Ryan White CARE Act, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) authorization, [22] and the 1997 Labor-Health and Human Services (HHS) Education appropriations legislation. However, many states still ...
NEXT (Needle EXchange Technology) Harm Reduction is an American nonprofit that sends naloxone, sterile syringes, and other harm reduction supplies through the mail. [1] It is based in the state of New York but serves clients throughout the country. [1] It is the first formal mail-delivered harm reduction service in the US. [2]
Bredefeld stressed his opposition based on the idea that a needle exchange program fosters increased drug abuse. “I know what it takes for drug addicts to stop using drugs,” said Bredefeld ...