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Breaking: Congress Votes to Kill People
[image:1 align:right]Earlier this week we alerted our email subscribers and web site readers that Repu
Needle Exchange
Email from Rep. Jose Serrano on Reinstatement of Federal Syringe Exchange Funding Ban
(The following statement from Rep. José Serrano (D-NY), sponsor of 2009 legislation that repealed the ban on federal funding of sy
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ALERT: Don't Let Congress Backslide on Needle Exchange
Republicans in Congress are pushing to reinstate a ban on use of federal AIDS funds for needle exchange programs. If they succeed, if won't reduce federal spending, but it will kill people. Please call today to tell Congress and the President to say no.
Badly needed needle exchanges could be coming to more CA counties under a bill just signed by Gov Brown. (wikimedia.org)
California Gov. Brown Signs Needle Access Bills
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law a pair of bills that will expand syringe access and help slow the spread of infectious diseases.
Scottish Needle Exchange Conference
Scottish Needle Exchange Conference
'Working Together'
Stirling Highland Hotel, Stirling, Scotland
WEDNESDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
The conference is the inaugural Scottish Needle Exchange Conference held to support the implementation of the first national needle exchange contract.
The primary aim of the conference is to communicate on a Scottish wide basis, trends within the needle exchange arena, and to support best practice, working together.
Visit http://www.snxc.org for further information.
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Chronicle Book Review: Drugs and Drug Policy
A trio of academic experts have come up with a drug policy book you're going to want to read, even if only to argue with it. Especially to argue with it.
Needle exchanges save lives -- ask the Surgeon General (Image via Wikimedia)
US Surgeon General Gives Okay for Needle Exchange Funding
The US Surgeon General has given the thumbs up to needle exchanges. That should open up some grant opportunities.
White House Moves to Fund Needle Exchanges As Drug Treatment
The Obama administration has designated needle exchanges as a drug treatment program, allowing federal money set aside to treat addictions to be used to distribute syringes to intravenous drug users. Two years ago President Obama lifted the 21-year ban on federally funded needle exchange programs as a necessary evil to reduce the spread of HIV among illicit drug users. The new position, determined by the surgeon general, is that the states can receive federal funding for programs that hand out the syringes as a treatment. A 11-year-old study in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment that found that addicts who participated in needle exchanges were five times more likely to enter drug treatment.
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The Prospects for Drug Reform: California [FEATURE]
California has a well-deserved reputation for being on the cutting edge of social change. What are the prospects for drug reform there now?