Injection drug users' needle-cleaning practices.
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The Washington Needle Depot: fitting healthcare to injection drug users rather than injection drug users to healthcare: moving from a syringe exchange to syringe distribution model
Needle exchange programs chase political as well as epidemiological dragons, carrying within them both implicit moral and political goals. In the exchange model of syringe distribution, injection drug users (IDUs) must provide used needles in order to receive new needles. Distribution and retrieval are co-existent in the exchange model. Likewise, limitations on how many needles can be received ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.84.9.1523-a