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Article: Corzine puts needle exchange in motion
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- Press of Atlantic City
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- December 20, 2006
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TRENTON - New Jersey became the last state in the nation to allow drug users access to clean needles without a prescription when Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed legislation Tuesday to allow pilot needle-exchange programs in as many as six cities.
"This is long overdue," Corzine said. "Quite simply, this bill will save lives."
Atlantic City and Camden are expected to start the state's first legal needle-exchange programs sometime within the next three months. Both city councils passed needle-exchange ordinances in 2004 that were ultimately struck down in court.
The South Jersey AIDS Alliance already has landed private funding and hopes to locate a needle exchange at the Oasis Drop In Center ...