A nationwide needle exchange service for drug addicts — funded by an Elton John charity — has still not been set up, a year and a half after it was announced.
Elton John’s Aids Foundation donated €750,000 to the Government to fund much-needed facilities across the country where intravenous drug users could access clean injecting equipment and health advice.
This was in response to a substantial increase in the number of heroin users outside the Dublin commuter belt and the threat posed by blood-borne viruses, such as HIV and Hepatitis C, spread through the sharing of needles and other equipment.
Source: Cormac O’Keeffe, The Irish Examiner, 21/02/2011
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