Needle exchanges, which provide drug users with free sterile needles, are set to receive some much needed financial assistance this year following a decision by Congress in January to lift a long-standing ban on federal funding as an epidemic of prescription drug and heroin abuse continues to spread across the US. The change in federal policy allows funding only in areas where drug-related cases of hepatitis and HIV are rising or are likely to. Will more states turn to needle exchanges as a way to save lives? We look at the effort to prevent the spread of disease on the Lip News with Margaret Howell and Jo Ankier.
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