USA Today (1/8, Ungar) reports Congress has “effectively lifted the nation’s long-standing ban on federal funding for needle exchange programs,” with a measure that was “quietly tucked into the omnibus spending package signed by President Obama last month.” While Federal funds “still can’t be used for the syringes themselves,” they can be used for “expenses associated with these programs, such as staff, vans, substance use counseling, referral to treatment and outreach in at-risk communities.”
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— “Funding ban on needle exchanges effectively lifted,” Laura Unger, USA Today, January 7, 2016.