Sentences with phrase «clean needles»

They provide clean needles to addicts, have overdose medications on - site, and also give users information when particularly dangerous batches of drugs are being sold on the street.

I know my artists use clean needles, so i do nt.

On the cherry pitting front, here's the trick (if you don't own a cherry - pitter): take a pair of clean needle nose pliers and use them.

Supplying clean needles hands weapons to inmates, guards say.

BY NATHAN RILEY A legislative proposal in Albany to reduce stigma, curb police harassment of drug users, and improve access to clean needles demonstrated broad support at a January 15 press conference in Manhattan.

Clean needles at a safe injection site in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

The outbreak reached such a scale that Pence, overcoming his personal opposition to needle exchanges, authorized an emergency clean needle program, and the state later reversed its ban on such programs.

The gallery operator collects clean needles free of charge at a Harlem needle exchange.

In Britain, pharmacies and more than 250 agencies distribute clean needles.

Policies that are accepted in the outside world — including the provision of clean needles for people who inject drugs — are seen as impossible behind bars, even though drugs can be obtained in prison and a disproportionate number of inmates have a history of drug use.

Ways should be found to prescribe clean needles and syringes to those who are unable to give up drugs while in prison.

The exhibition presents safer sex posters, comics, brochures, videos, PSAs, and safer sex and clean needle kits, among other archival items, all from the collections at ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries.

Now are we still stuck maintaining our addiction with clean needles, or, best case, settling for methadone?

It also called for countries to decriminalise programmes which provide clean needles and syringes and encouraged opiate substitution treatment for people who are dependant.

Yet Iran also has very progressive policies towards drug addiction, which include distribution of clean needles to injecting drug users, methadone substitution programmes (also in prisons) and a vast system of addiction treatment.

«State laws that increase access to syringe exchange programs and clean needles and syringes, and policies that facilitate access to HCV treatment through state Medicaid programs can reduce HCV transmission risk,» said the study authors.

A Starbucks Original Series: A tenacious young physician hands out clean needles to drug users.

We do not get at (or «interfere with») the underlying behavior driving the epidemic; we simply reduce the risk or harm by providing condoms, clean needles, treating the curable sexually transmitted diseases, etc..

As shown in my photo, it asked me to clean the needle.

We have counties across the state that don't have a single place to go where you can get a clean needle.»

As elected officials struggle to address the ongoing opioid crisis, one of the more controversial proposals has been legal injection sites, where addicts would have access to clean needles, medical staff, and a variety of information and services — including treatment options.

New York State would allow pharmacies to advertise the sale of clean needles to drug users, limit the number of days opioids can initially be prescribed and require insurers to cover up to two weeks of inpatient rehabilitation for drug users under a program bill the Cuomo administration is now drafting.

Not included in the tentative deal is a measure to advertise the sale of clean needles to drug users, a proposal that has been favored by advocates and was included in a program bill the Cuomo administration had drafted earlier this month.

Providing access to clean needles is one of the best ways to prevent the disease's spread.

Providing bleach to clean needles is less controversial.

Sandra Ka Hon Chu is with the HIV - AIDS legal action network which launced a lawsuit in 2012 against the correctional service saying lack of clean needles to inject drugs violates a prisoner's right to health