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Families and Friends for Drug Law
Reform is calling on South Australia to follow the example of the Australian
Capital Territory and introduce a prison-based needle-exchange program.
FFDLR’s SA representative, Sandra
Kanck, said the National Hepatitis C Strategy has recommended that state
governments identify opportunities to trial NEPs in prison, and “The ACT has
taken up the opportunity, while SA has buried its head in the sand.” She said
that the SA Department of Correctional Services had rejected such a move,
citing “the old myth” that an NEP would endanger prison staff. “FFDLR challenges
Correctional Services to come up with proof of that claim - they will not be
able to because there is no such proof,” she said. “It’s a reality that
prisoners get hold of drugs in our prison system and, because of the sharing of
needles, hepatitis C is also shared.”
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dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and
empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV
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