It makes sense with the rise of heroin usage that a needle exchange program is implemented. Sharing needles can lead to larger scale infection and disease outbreaks, which means more addiction to fight because people can’t afford the Pharma to help or the drug detox programs to stop. – PB/TK
Virginia law will give drug addicts clean needles – FOX News / June 30 2017
A new law in Virginia will permit health departments to provide clean needles to drug addicts in order to help decrease the spread of disease.
The new legislation, signed by Gov. Terry McAuliffe, D-Va., is meant to prevent drug addicts from spreading infections and disease by sharing needles with other people, according to Laura Kornegay, the health director at Central Shenandoah Health District.
“A lot of that is driven by an increase in IV heroin use. So we have concerns from a public health aspect about transmission of hepatitis B and hepatitis C with reuse of needles,” Dr. Kornegay told WHSV
Dr. Kornegay said that drug addicts visiting the health department looking for clean needles will give health officials the opportunity to test the addicts for diseases or push them toward drug therapy.
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