Needle Exchanges

HIV-AIDS IS laying waste to Washington. The District has one of the worst infection rates in the country, and intravenous drug use is one of the primary modes of transmission. Yet the District -- unlike any other jurisdiction in the country -- is prohibited by Congress from using its own money to...

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