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...resolution, proposed by Councillor Saundra M. Graham, was designed to mitigate the AIDS epidemic. Sharing infected needles during IV drug use is the second highest mode of transmission for the incurable disease, and 26 percent of all IV drug users are infected with the AIDS virus...
Graham said Monday that she also wanted to draw attention to IV drug users as a group in danger from the disease. She said she hoped such an exchange program would protect drug users, as well as their partners and children, who are also at risk...
Sixty-six percent of all children with AIDS received the disease from mothers who were IV drug users, according to Dr. James Curran of the Shriners Burn Institute...
...Monday night's meeting, Walsh added an amendment to the proposal that would allow Cambridge to provide counseling to IV drug users. He said he wanted to add an ethical as well as a medical aspect to the program by encouraging drug users to "seek the counsel of clergy and rabbis...
Walsh said he would not have voted for a resolution with only the needle exchange provision. "Giving out needles to IV drug users is like giving gasoline to pyromaniacs," he added...