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New Jersey's Long Discussed Needle Exchange Plan Lacks Funding, Clients

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: Crime and Justice News, February 26, 2008.

"New Jersey has become the last state where intravenous drug users can legally get clean needles, but two of the state's three needle exchanges are struggling to get clients, reports the Associated Press. An underlying problem is funding. While state authorized exchanges in 2006, it has not helped pay for them. One program in Camden distributes"

"New Jersey is believed to have tens of thousands of IV drug users; a 2004 study estimated there were as many as 23,400 in the Newark area alone. But only about 200 are enrolled so far in the three existing exchanges. Advocates of the exchanges hope addicts who have easier access to needles won't be as likely to share them, and the spread of HIV and "

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Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).