Needle-Exchange Programs Backed

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Needle-Exchange Programs Backed

American Medical News (12/19/94) Vol. 37, No. 47, P. 8
Hearn, Wayne

American Medical Association (AMA) delegates to the AMA Interim Meeting voted to encourage needle-exchange programs as an effective method of reducing the spread of HIV, AIDS, and other diseases in drug users who otherwise would share infected needles. The delegates also supported the study of compassionate prescribing of therapeutic components of marijuana. The original version of the measure called for studying marijuana prescribing as a means to relieve the pain associated with diseases such as cancer and AIDS. The final version, however, limited the evaluation to "noninhaled" preparations of cannabinoids--the components of marijuana that are believed to contain therapeutic properties--because of concerns about the health risks of smoking marijuana, the difficulty of constructing single and double-blind studies for smoked marijuana, and concern that such an action would be seen as endorsing legalization or decriminalization. Finally, the delegates approved a measure supporting further study of "harm reduction" strategies such as decriminalization, needle- exchanges, and methadone maintenance.

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