Needle Exchange Program

Links to Other NEP Information

To learn more about needle exchange programs and blood borne diseases, check with these sites:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	www.cdc.gov

Join Together, a project of the Boston University School of Public Health	www.jointogether.org

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation	www.kff.org

University of California at San Francisco	www.caps.ucsf.edu

National Research Council	www.nationalacademies.org

United Stated Department of Health and Human Services	www.hhs.gov

Lindesmith Center	www.lindesmith.org

Dogwood Center, “Health Emergency 1999: The Spread of AIDS and Other Deadly Diseases Among African Americans and Latinos”.	www.drcnet.org/healthemergency/

amFAR	www.amFAR.org

U. S. Surgeon General’s “Evidence-Based Findings on the Efficacy of Syringe Exchange Programs: An Analysis From the Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General of the Scientific Research Completed since April 1998”	www.harmreduction.org/surgreview.html

“Annotated Bibliography: Scientific Research on Syringe Exchange Program Published Since April 1998”, Paone, Clark, Shi, Purchase, De Jarlais	www.harmreduction.org/surgbib.html

Drug Reform Coordination Network	www.drcnet.org

“Prevention of HIV/AIFS Among Injection Drug Users: The Theory and Science of Public Health and Criminal Justice Approaches to Disease Prevention”, Gostin and Lazzarini	www.law.emory.edu/ELJ/volumes/spg97/gostin.html

Office of National Drug Control Policy	www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov

Common Sense for Drug Policy	www.csdp.org