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Western MA: Rep. Neal's Opposition to Needle Exchange Continues including no support for lifting HR 179 lifting bad on suport for federal needle exchange funds

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

New Hope for Needle Exchange A new bill may lift a 1988 ban on using federal funds to support needle exchange programs. Tuesday, April 21, 2009 By Maureen Turner Valley Advocate Tim Purington got some bad news last week: the needle exchange program he runs for Tapestry Health in Northampton saw its state funding cut by $12,500 for the remainder of the fiscal year. And given the sorry state of the commonwealth's finances, he wouldn't be surprised to see more cuts come next year. The program?which allows IV-drug users to trade used syringes for clean ones, with the goal of stemming the spread of HIV, hepatitis and other blood-borne diseases by users sharing needles?gets all of its $200,000 annual budget from state funds, said Purington, the program director...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 22, 2009 (boomark / email).