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As a nurse who volunteered for many years with the IDU community in Eugene, OR I think that it is important to recognize that putting people in recovery programs will be ineffective if those people are not yet ready to change their behaviors.  The philosophy of harm reduction is to protect the community from disease transmission and even to lessen the financial burden on local hospitals due to wounds from injecting-needle exchange programs do this effectively.

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