Harm Reduction: What Happens When Best Practice Is At Odds With Community Acceptance? [wvpublic.org]

Alicia Doktor 12/3/1812:00 PM

On this West Virginia Morning, current best practices for harm reduction programs include a couple provisions: no retractable needles should be distributed, patients should get as many needles as possible regardless of how many they bring back, and barriers to accessing needles should be as low as possible. But what happens when those recommendations are at odds with community acceptance for the practices? Kara Lofton reports.

[For more on this story by WEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING, go to http://www.wvpublic.org/post/h...-acceptance#stream/0]

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