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Argument: Needle exchanges don't save lives; cause drug-related deaths
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Aaron Lawrence. "Why a Needle-Exchange Program is a Bad Idea". Record. August 26, 2005: "Addicts still are prone to death, perhaps not from HIV, but from overdose, collapsed veins, poisoned dope, or the violence and criminality that go along with the illicit drug trade."
Toni Meyer. "Making the case for opposing needle exchange". New Jersey Family Policy Council. November 16, 2007: "Overdoses/Deaths: Due to the free and open availability of clean needles, addicts are enabled to shoot up as often as they can. This can lead to more deaths by drug overdose. A new study published in the journal Addiction finds that despite Baltimore’s needle distribution program (the largest in the nation, distributing more than 6 mil. needles over the past 10 years) injection drug users (IDUs) there, triple their risk for death within two years of taking up the habit and those who inject for ten years have a death rate 8 times higher than those who do not8. A sad example of the culture of death that pervades NEPs, the following report from Vancouver is beyond belief. According to an article in the Canadian Press on September 6, 2005, addicts, crippled and blinded by their own drug use and too sick to shoot themselves up, will be helped by a team of users to get high 'safely'."
