1. Needle Exchange Programs
Meth " having overwhelmed the rural northwest, it is now one of the fastest growing drugs in seven western cities, among them, Seattle, Denver, and Salt Lake City and rivals crack use in Los Angeles and San Francisco" (Solotaroff 50) is not to be taken lightly. ...
Fred Dillon, Policy Director at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, compares the costs of syringes to HIV treatment as fifteen cents for a syringe at a pharmacy and $34,000 a year to treat an individual infected with HIV ("Advocates"). ...