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Hoping to reduce San Francisco’s high rate of fatal drug overdoses
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Originally Posted by Sten
That seems to be a self correcting problem why try fix it?  |
Actually, there's more. The article states that ODs are "one of every seven emergency calls" (14%)
and that "overdoses has declined from a high of about 160 in 1995 to 40 in 2004" (a 75% decrease). So Sten, you may be right.
There's another agenda in the San Francisco article.
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Like many large U.S. cities, the city operates a clean-needle exchange program to reduce HIV and hepatitis C infections.
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Over the years there has been considerable controversy about needle exchange programs; scientific, cultural, political, etc. Here's something you might want to read.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/en...ubmed_RVDocSum
IMHO, this may be either a "tempest in a teapot" or the fast track to the "slipery slope".
