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Needle Program for HIV

Injection drug use is a leading cause of the spread of HIV. Some health professionals are trying to curtail the sharing of used needles among drug addicts by giving them prescriptions to buy clean ones at local drugstores. But is this practice legal? From member station WBUR in Boston, Jason Beaubien reports.

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