It is a new law that is expected to save lives. In what some consider a controversial move, the state of Arizona has legalized syringe or needle exchange programs, which means those addicted to drugs now have a place to go and get clean needles for free.
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Robert Nickelsberg
Overview
Over the past decade, attempts to address the overdose crisis in the U.S. have resulted in more restrictive opioid prescribing policies which, because they have reduced the overall availability of prescription opioids, have inadvertently led to a surge in the use of illicit drugs such as heroin.
Because these illicit opioids are often injected, they’re associated with higher rates of overdose than prescription painkillers, and, when unsterile injection equipment is used or shared, people are at risk of getting a serious infection or transmitting disease.
1 As of March 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that 44 states; Washington, D.C.; one tribal nation; and one territory were experiencing or at risk of an acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) or HIV outbreak due to injection drug use.
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Loss, shame and love: How the AIDS epidemic affected Liverpool
From attending funerals every week to creating a model to fight back against the disease, this is the story of the AIDS epidemic in Liverpool
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It was described as a “death sentence”.
Again and again, those who spoke to the Liverpool ECHO described the disease, which had taken friends and loved ones, as a “death sentence.”
Once people caught it, it not only meant death but also being treated as an outcast by society.
The AIDS epidemic in the 1980s stole a generation of mostly young men from the country, and from Liverpool.