Needle Exchange Programs Are Needed, Say Los Angeles Times and Washington Post

HARM REDUCTION July 1997

"Washington should listen to the civic leaders and public health experts who have seen close up how the programs can be an effective and inexpensive way of curbing the spread of deadly disease," the Los Angeles Times wrote in its endorsement of needle exchanges. The Washington Post wrote that needle exchange programs "are helping to stop HIV -- and that needs to be a priority of the federal government (Editorial, "Needle Programs Are Needed," Los Angeles Times (Washington Edition), July 8, 1997, p. A10; Editorial, " ... Offering Clean Needles," Washington Post, July 14, 1997, p. A18).