"Harlem Clinic Offers Cheap, Easy Way to Fight AIDS Spread"

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"Harlem Clinic Offers Cheap, Easy Way to Fight AIDS Spread"

Reuters (12/28/88)
Ross, Caren

Abstract: New York--An experimental clinic in Harlem is providing methadone to 150 heroin addicts a day in attempt to prevent the further spread of AIDS. The participants are all among the 1000 addicts who are on waiting lists for a city treatment program, but unlike the others, these addicts can give up their needles for methadone pills. The federal government, which banned methadone programs without counseling and other services 10 years ago, gave this program special approval after a trial showed a dramatic dropoff in needle use and an improvement in the quality of the addicts' lives. Arthur Zanko, an administrator at Beth Israel Medical Center, which started the program last year, says, "Every hospital within three days could open up one of these programs." Methadone costs about $800 per addict per year, compared to about $40,000 per year per case of AIDS, and $20,000 a year per inmate for a year in jail, state officials said. Addicts standing in line for the drug said this program was an improvement over needle-sharing experiments. Experts believe more than half of New York City's estimated 250,000 addicts are HIV-positive.
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