Common sense on needle exchange

By Derrick Z. Jackson | Tuesday, July 14, 2009 | The Boston Globe

“…This is of little interest to some Republicans, such as Todd Tiahrt of Kansas, the ranking Republican of the House subcommittee, who said he was ‘very concerned’ about the elimination of the ban. He still clings to the disproved notion that clean needles promote drug use. It is time, with the House having taken the lead, for Obama to get out front and say once and for all that science takes the front seat to ideology. Some issues are too critical to the very lives of Americans to wait to ‘build support’….”…BS

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/07/14/common_sense_on_needle_exchange?mode=PF

 

 

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