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HARM REDUCTION AND NEEDLE EXCHANGE

Allan Clear, Harm Reduction Coalition

Prevention Justice Seminar

October 27, 2004

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Recommended Readings
Harm Reduction and Needle Exchanges



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I. Close Needle Exchange, Community Board Urges by Michael Haberman. In The Villager, Vol. 65, No. 26, Nov. 29th 1995.

II. Needles and Damage Done – Amid Cries of Exclusion, Syringe Exchange Halted by Paul Menchaca. In Queens Chronicle, March 11 2004.

III. Needle Exchange Now (Editorial). In Queens Chronicle, March 11 2004.

IV. Needle Exchange Arrests Must Stop by Mark Hamblett. In New York Law Journal, Thursday November 21, 2002.

V. How Needle Exchange Programs Fight the AIDS Epidemic by Brent Staples. In New York Times, October 25 2004.

VI. Letter from Congressman Souder to the Honorable Elias A. Zerhouni, April 27 2004.

VII. Letter from Allan Clear to the Honorable Elilas A. Zerhouni, May 7 2004.

VIII. Response from Nora D. Volkow to Allan Clear August 4, 2002.

IX. Needles Exchange Programs and the Prevention of HIV Infection – Interview with Dr Steffanie Strathdee. In AIDS PATIENT CARE and STDs, Vol. 18, No. 7, 2004.

X. Day, Dawn. 2002. Health emergency 2003: the spread of drug-related AIDS and hepatitis C among African Americans and Latinos. Report from the Dogwood Center and the Harm Reduction Coalitionhttp www.dogwoodcenter.org/2003/HE2003.pdf

XI. Epidemiology and the Politics of Needle Exchange, Moss, A.R. In the American Journal of Public Health September 2000, Vol. 90 (9) p.1385.

XII. Needle Exchange, Pragmatism and Moralism, Coutinho, R.A. In the American Journal of Public Health September 2000, Vol. 90 (9) p.1387.