{"id":3022,"date":"2020-01-22T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/prof-bluthenthal-to-talk-needle-exchange-programs-at-cato\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T16:55:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T23:55:16","slug":"prof-bluthenthal-to-talk-needle-exchange-programs-at-cato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/prof-bluthenthal-to-talk-needle-exchange-programs-at-cato\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Bluthenthal talks needle exchange programs at Cato Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"text-container\">\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Press Release<\/span>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n      <h1>Prof. Bluthenthal talks 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And he had plenty of heavy hitters with him.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/multimedia\/events\/needle-exchange-programs-benefits-challenges\">event<\/a>, held in Washington, D.C., was recorded live. Watch it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"Needle Exchange Programs: Benefits and Challenges\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/6039378657001\/tgKviZsza_default\/index.html?videoId=6123187487001\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bluthenthal is a professor of Preventive Medicine in the Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. About a year ago he was appointed associate dean of the newly created <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usc.edu\/155247\/usc-medical-leaders-promote-social-justice-as-key-step-toward-healing-societys-ills\/\">Office for Social Justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keynote remarks were delivered by the Surgeon General of the U.S., Vice Adm. Jerome M. Adams. Bluthenthal praised Adams\u2019s endorsement of needle-exchange programs, but wanted to make sure the discussion included the health risks to those who use drugs: \u201cI think we need to really put them at the center of the programming, and not be satisfied with policy responses that don\u2019t put their health outcomes first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The panel in which Bluthenthal took part also featured Congressman Tony Rivero, a Republican from Arizona, and was moderated by Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Singer and the libertarian-leaning think tank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/more-evidence-support-needle-exchange-programs\">endorse the idea<\/a> of needle-exchange programs, in which IV drug users bring in used syringe needles and trade them for clean ones. Drug users who inject themselves with needles that they or others have already face a much higher risk of contracting blood-transmitted diseases like HIV\/AIDS, hepatitis C, and infective carditis, an infection of the endocardium, the lining inside the chambers of the heart.<\/p>\n<p>A study Bluthenthal co-authored in 2000 showed that, in several cities that had exchange programs, there were significant reductions in needle sharing. In Baltimore, sharing dropped from 22 percent to 8 percent within six months. His study in 2007 linked making syringes more available to lower HIV risk, with no corresponding increase of unsafe syringe disposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeedle exchange programs work, because the people who use them, it gives them stuff that they need,\u201d Bluthenthal says. \u201cPeople share syringes because there\u2019s a scarcity of syringes. There\u2019s no value in sharing syringes; it\u2019s not like unprotected sex. And so once you give people what they need, then they\u2019re able to protect themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adams also favors wider availability of needle exchanges, as does <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/opinion\/op-ed\/2019\/08\/16\/arizona-needle-exchange-save-lives-yet-law-outlaws-them\/2023648001\/\">Rep. Rivero<\/a>. Such programs are not legal in Rivero\u2019s home state of Arizona, nor in 20 other states. 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