Regarding 'PJP doesn't help addicts by giving them needles' (Mar. 1):
Evan Baehr's letter echoes the classic objection that many uninformed people espouse. By simplifying this issue, he presents needle exchange strictly as an avenue to facilitate drug use, despite the fact that needle exchange is an essential preventative health measure recommended to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS by every scientific body to study the issue, including the American Medical Association, Centers for Disease Control, and both Clinton and the first Bush's AIDS commissions.
Supporting needle exchange is by no means sanctioning drug use: It is acknowledging it. Not only has needle exchange been shown to reduce the spread of blood borne diseases and facilitate access to rehab and medical care for drug users, all federally commissioned studies indicated that needle exchange does not increase drug use. Many in fact demonstrate that it frequently leads to decreases in the numbers of drug users.
As Baehr noted, treatment programs are important in reducing drug use; however, in a state like New Jersey with 46,000 IV-drug users and only 8,000 treatment beds, treatment is often inaccessible, with thousands on waitlists. Needle exchange is by no means a solution to drug use, but it is a means of preventing infection by an incurable disease until treatment is available. Erin Blake '06 President, Princeton Justice Project
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