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Pushback on syringe services hurts Maine’s HIV fight, experts say
Eryn Soule-Leclair is sick of seeing used needles on the ground.
The Lewiston councilor said finding needles in parks and near her place of work makes it hard to enjoy the city’s public spaces. She proposed an ordinance this year in hopes of limiting the city’s syringe services programs, which exchange used needles for sterile ones to reduce blood-borne disease transmission among injection drug users.
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