The Washington Needle Depot: fitting healthcare to injection drug users rather than injection drug users to healthcare: moving from a syringe exchange to syringe distribution model

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Needle exchange programs chase political as well as epidemiological dragons, carrying within them both implicit moral and political goals. In the exchange model of syringe distribution, injection drug users (IDUs) must provide used needles in order to receive new...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Glickman Andrea, Small Dan, Rigter Galen, Walter Thia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-01-01
Series:Harm Reduction Journal
Online Access:http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/7/1/1