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Needle Exchange Comes of Age
Kirp, David L. | April 26, 1993 issue

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The article focuses on the use of clean needle to reduce the spread of AIDS disease. A dozen of men and women in Boston carrying a banner announcing themselves as the AIDS Brigade began to set up shop across the Street from City Hospital. They intended to hand out clean needles to intravenous drug users, they said, and immediately a handful of hopeful syringe recipients lined up. More than a hundred needle-exchange advocates were convening for the North American Syringe Exchange Convention across town at the Government Center Holiday Inn. The talks were studded with street-smart colloquialisms and drug lingo.

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AIDS (Disease); NEEDLE sharing; INTRAVENOUS drug abuse; SYRINGES; HOSPITALS; DISEASES -- Causes & theories of causation; DRUGS
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