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Article: NEEDLE TRADING PROGRAMS WON'T GET FEDERAL FUNDING.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 21, 1998
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The Clinton administration refused yesterday to use federal tax dollars to buy clean needles for drug addicts, even though it said needle exchanges fight AIDS without encouraging illegal drug use.
Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala said her scientific endorsement should encourage more communities to start their own needle exchanges.
But Shalala, under orders from the White House, sidestepped a political fight with conservatives and stopped short of providing communities with federal money to let addicts swap dirty needles for clean ones.
Half of all people who catch HIV are infected by needles or by sex with injecting drug users, ...