Clean Needles Save Lives

Below is a great video with an explanation and a short history of syringe exchange programs, as well as an illustration of how harm reduction and syringe exchange programs actively save lives.
Click here for the source of this video and a short write up of the current situation with syringe exchange programs and federal funding.

Excerpts from the article:
There are already more than 200 syringe exchange programs all around the US that provided 30 million sterile needles and syringes for drug users last year.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2,397 US citizens died of AIDS in 2007 were reportedly infected through the sharing of injecting equipment.

According to a UN World Health Organization report based on the meta-analysis of more than 200 studies, needle exchange programs do not increase drug use but they effectively reduce HIV infections among people who have been already injecting.