Jul/090
U.S. House permits needle exchange programs
House permits needle exchange programs
U.S. needle exchange history
Finally! Albeit 20 years – and many, many, many thousands of deaths – late. Still better late than never. Hopefully a harbinger of more good changes to come.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi commented:
Sound science is an essential component of good public health policy, and the scientific support for needle exchange could not be more clear. The Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes for Health, the World Health Organization, and former Surgeon General David Satcher have all confirmed the scientific evidence in support of needle exchange programs. These initiatives are an effective public health intervention that reduces the number of new HIV infections without increasing the use of illegal drugs.
– The Gavel
Jul/090
Hello world! Hello friends! Hello drug war survivors!
After several years of struggling with free web hosts and free forums, and then several more years of using a donated subdomain at mammajamma.org, UNDUN has finally purchased its own web host and the domain name undun.org. This means we can finally created a permanent website that includes whatever bells and whistles we want. One such bell and whistle is this blog.
We intend this blog to be the main place in which we share info and provide updates on a regular basis. We will be blogging about all sorts of issues and events that we find interesting. And we hope you’ll find them interesting also. We plan on making new blog posts quite regularly. Ideally you will be able to find new and thought-provoking content here on more-or-less a daily basis.
Our website will not be update as regularly. We intend it to be a information source with pretty much static content – basically it is intended as a resource which provides key content about the fundamental issues pertinent to drug user organizing and a chronology of the major things we’re doing. Also we hope it will provide a good library of documents or other media specific to drug users’ activism.
This blog on the other hand will hopefully be lively and always updating, and cover a wide gamut of news or happenings from the world of drug user activism, or drug-related issues generally. Basically whatever we find interesting, we will try to share here with you.
Most importantly we hope this blog will become an interactive place, full of dialogue because of YOU making comments. We hope to have many threads of discussion in the comments section of each blogged item. Please feel free to share your thoughts. Don’t be shy. Your comments are majorly welcomed. We want to hear from you.