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American
Pharmaceutical
Association
Adopts
Syringe
Deregulation
Position
3/26/99
The House of Delegates of
the American Pharmaceutical Association adopted the following position
at its March 9th meeting this year:
"APhA encourages state legislatures
and boards of pharmacy to revise laws and regulations to permit the unrestricted
sale or distribution of sterile syringes and needles by or with the knowledge
of a pharmacist in an effort to decrease the transmission of blood-borne
diseases."
The position is similar to
one adopted by the American Medical Association in 1997.
Three articles discussing
pharmacies as potential access points for purchase of sterile syringes
by injection drug users were published in the January-February 1999 issue
of the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association:
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Should Pharmacists Sell Sterile
Syringes to Injection Drug Users? T. Stephen Jones and Jennifer Taussig.
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Pharmacy Access to Sterile Syringes
for Injection Drug Users: Attitudes of Participants in a Syringe Exchange
Program. Benjamin Junge, David Vlahov, Elise Riley, Steven Huettner,
Michele Brown and Peter Beilenson.
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Attitudes and Practices of Pharmacy
Managers Regarding Needle Sales to Injection Drug Users. Thomas A.
Farley, Linda M. Niccolai, Marianne Billeter, Patricia J. Kissinger and
Marcellus Grace.
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Issue #84, 3/26/99
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