{"id":2726,"date":"2009-12-20T21:08:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T21:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/federal-funding-for-needle-exchanges\/"},"modified":"2009-12-20T21:08:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T21:08:12","slug":"federal-funding-for-needle-exchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/federal-funding-for-needle-exchanges.php","title":{"rendered":"Federal Funding for Needle Exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>After two decades, Congress has voted to lift a ban on federal funding of needle exchange programs. AIDS activists are cheering the move, saying it legitimizes needle exchange in the nationwide fight against HIV\/AIDS.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=121511681\">issue<\/a> illustrates perfectly the cascade of unintended consequences that arises from misguided policies.&nbsp; The root of the problem here is drug prohibition, because it fosters restrictions on the legal sale of syringes and, worse, raises drug prices,&nbsp;which encourages users to inject to get a big bang for the buck.<\/p><p>If needles&nbsp;were legally available without a prescription, many users would purchase them and avoid sharing dirty needles, even under prohibition.<\/p><p>And if drugs were legal,&nbsp;they would be far cheaper, so most users would consume via less risky methods than injection.<\/p><p>Government funding for needle exchanges, given current law, is compassionate and good for the public health.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet it puts government in the awkward position of funding an activity that many citizens find distasteful or even abhorrent.<\/p><p>So yet again, legalizaiton is the answer.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ba7f9_6379328854053402400-3790309080699697049?l=jeffreymiron.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two decades, Congress has voted to lift a ban on federal funding of needle exchange programs. AIDS activists are cheering the move, saying it legitimizes needle exchange in the nationwide fight against HIV\/AIDS.This issue illustrates perfectly the cascade of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/federal-funding-for-needle-exchanges.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}