The following letter is in response to Injection Drug Users Sentenced to Disease, published May 21st. ——– Dear City on a Hill Press,   It was no surprise that President Obama retained the language that prohibits spending federal funds on syringe exchange programs in the President’s Fiscal Year 2010 Budget. We had been receiving that [...]

Nineteen percent of all AIDS victims in California contracted HIV from sharing contaminated needles. Sixty percent of the people in the United States infected with Hepatitis C transmitted the disease via injection equipment.

Of all the promises President Obama made during his presidential campaign, lifting the ban on federal funding of needle exchange was one of the most important and progressive. Unfortunately, he has failed to live up to his promise.