NEWSBRIEFS	TOPICS Harm Reduction
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• May - June 1998
  • House of Representatives Approves Permanent Ban on Federal Funding of Needle Exchanges
  • Congressional Black Caucus Members Call for "Drug Czar" McCaffrey's Resignation
     
• March - April 1998
  • Ban on Federal Funding of Needle Exchange Will Not Be Lifted, Says Clinton Administration
  • Clinton's AIDS Panel Expresses "No Confidence" in Administration For Failure to Fund Needle Exchanges
  • Colorado Needle Exchange Bill Defeated
     
• January 1998
  • Montreal Needle Exchange Participant's HIV Sero-Conversion Rate Twice That of Non-Exchange Participants, Says St. Luc Hospital Study; Health Officers Say More Programs, Services Are Needed
  • Presidential AIDS Panel Criticizes Clinton for Failing to Fund Prevention Efforts, Including Needle Exchange
• November - December 1997
  • Denver Mayor Proposes Allowing Three Needle Exchange Programs, Amending Paraphernalia Law
  • "Cotton Fever" in Intravenous Drug Users

• September - October 1997
  • Opposing Bills on Funding of Needle Exchanges Pending in Congress
  • Needle Exchange Advocates Rally at HHS
  • Oppose Needle Exchange Says Family Research Council; Supporters Respond at Dueling Press Conferences
  • Dutch Pastor Forces Government to Provide Heroin to Addicts; Had Offered to Sell Discount Heroin at Church
     
• August 1997
  • New Jersey Needle Exchange Founders Convicted of Syringe Distribution
  • Swiss Heroin Maintenance Program Declared a Success
  • Heroin Trial in Australia Abandoned
  • New Physician Group Seeks Alternatives to National Drug Policy
  • Needle Exchange Law Takes Effect in New Mexico
     
• July 1997
  • AMA Calls on Congress to Lift Ban on Federal Funding for Needle Exchanges
  • End Federal Ban on Needle Exchanges, Says U.S. Conference of Mayors
  • Needle Exchange Advocates Send Letter to Clinton
  • Two U.S. Representatives Try to Eliminate HHS Secretary's Authority to Waive Ban on Funding of Needle Exchanges
  • Needle Exchange Programs Are Needed, Say Los Angeles Times and Washington Post
  • New "AIDS Czar" Appointed by President Clinton
  • Allow Maintenance Prescription of Heroin and Cocaine, Says Canada's National Task Force on HIV-AIDS
     
• March - April 1997
  • Needle Exchanges Endorsed by NIH Panel, Federal Officials
  • Needle Exchange Bill Dies in Colorado House
    

• February 1997
  • Grand Rapids, Michigan Mayor Proposes Needle Exchange Program
     
• October 1996
  • Legal Strategies for Syringe Exchange Programs
     
• May 1996
  • New Jersey Governor's Panel Votes to Recommend Needle Exchange; Needle Exchangers Arrested for First Time in New Brunswick
     
• March 1996
  • Whitman Rejects Panel's Suggestions About Needle Exchange