He says it's vital that drug users have access to supplies of clean syringes.

He says a drug addict isn't goint to travel 20 miles for clean syringes.

They include a bill that would protect pharmacists from criminal prosecution for selling clean syringes to drug users, a law in about 40 other states.

That was why he used a clean syringe, in case he should slip and stick her by mistake.

The project dispenses more than 13,000 clean syringes and 36,000 condoms a month, along with advice about staying healthy on the street.

Under the Government's new program about 400,000 clean hypodermic syringes are expected to be given free this year to the city's estimated 8,000 addicts.

The state was one of the first to allow needle-exchange programs, which offer intravenous drug users clean syringes in exchange for used ones.

A policy of monitoring substances and clean hypodermic syringes can save lives.

It is true that we are helping them by providing clean syringes and good user rooms, but the destruction continues.

Washington, for example, has removed references that were in the 2001 declaration about providing clean syringes to drug users.