http://www.harmreduction.org/ http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=878 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=878 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=792 <div class="text blurb">The decision to lift the ban on federally funded syringe-exchange programs is gaining bipartisan momentum on Capitol Hill. This July, a new bill recommending lifting the ban is scheduled to hit Congress. Has the time finally arrived for evidence-based science to prevail over moral debates around the issue of providing clean syringes for safer injecting? </div> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=792 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=744 <div class="text blurb">This North Bay Bohemian cover story highlights the needle exchange programs in the counties of Marin and Sonoma.</div> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=744 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=724 <div class="text blurb">Lifting the funding ban would help shore up programs nationwide that struggle to raise money. Federal money would boost efforts to stop the transmission of disease and offer intervention for intravenous drug abusers.</div> Sat, 16 Feb 2008 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=724 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=726 <div class="text blurb">Dirty needles are a leading source of HIV infections, but the federal government has for 20 years refused to fund no-questions-asked exchange programs for drug users, preferring to put money into prevention and treatment for addicts. Can't we acknowledge reality and do both?</div> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=726 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=727 <div class="text blurb">There are already about 200 needle-exchange programs in the United States, but many more are needed. John Auerbach, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, said that in studies of HIV prevention methods, none has yielded results as positive as needle exchanges. "We know it works," he said. Typically, drug users involved in needle exchanges are also encouraged to get into detox programs.</div> Tue, 12 Feb 2008 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=727 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=728 <div class="text blurb">Finally, it's worth remembering that AIDS remains a domestic problem with about 40,000 new infections yearly in this country. One useful brake on the problem would be an end to a 20-year ban on federal money for clean needle exchanges</div> Thu, 07 Feb 2008 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=728 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=714 <div class="text blurb">If most Americans knew, by simply removing a political plank in congressional appropriation bills, that we could reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS in the United States by up to one-third, they would run to their congressional representative's office and demand answers. </div> Thu, 07 Feb 2008 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=714 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=713 <div class="text blurb">Washington, D.C., which has the nation's highest HIV infection rate, can now use its own funds for needle exchange thanks to recent congressional action lifting a local ban. And New Jersey's first trial needle exchange program began in November in Atlantic City.</div> Thu, 07 Feb 2008 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=713 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=710 <div class="text blurb">Since the program launched in September, Skid Row users like Tillisch have reported using the drug kits in 32 overdose emergencies - successfully saving a life in 29 of those cases. But providers say putting more kits in the hands of drug users has been an uphill battle.</div> Thu, 17 Jan 2008 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=710 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=696 <div class="text blurb">Among the growing numbers of researchers and public health officials advocating a daring new strategy to put an injectable antidote for heroin overdoses directly into the hands of addicts, few have the credibility of Mark Kinzly. </div> Tue, 11 Dec 2007 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=696 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=674 <div class="text blurb">San Francisco city officials last Thursday took a tentative first step toward opening the nation's first safe injection site for drug users.</div> Fri, 26 Oct 2007 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=674 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=675 <div class="text blurb">Supporters of a potential city-funded, legal center in San Francisco where injection drug users can use drugs under medical supervision gathered Thursday to discuss the idea, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. </div> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=675 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=677 <div class="text blurb">Grant Colfax of San Francisco's Public Health Department said data show an injection clinic that opened in Vancouver, British Columbia, four years ago is benefiting the community, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.</div> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=677 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=642 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=642