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(Health-NewsWire.Net, June 15, 2015 ) Pittsburgh, PA -- At 19 Dianna Pagan was infected with HIV while intravenously using drugs, now she's working tirelessly to make sure that never happens to anyone else by breaking Pennsylvania's state ordinance to supply the public with clean needles, according to the Post Gazette. A recent breakthrough in the ban has allowed Pagan to continue her needle exchange program in Reading, Pennsylvania- as state officials have publically declared the need for safe needle exchange programs for the wellbeing of public health and contraction of HIV and Hepatitis C. The absence of safe needle exchange programs are giving rise to heightened cases of HIV and Hepatitis C contraction, endangering the public, untreated substance abusers, and drug addiction professionals. Drug Rehab Pittsburgh is a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center dedicated to helping their clients recover from drug and alcohol use disorders. The drug treatment facility urges state officials to lift the ban of safe needle exchange programs, not to make drug use easier, but for public wellbeing.
HIV and Hepatitis C spread through blood, easily transferred from user to user without access to clean needles. Both diseases are deadly and are very costly to treat. Although safe needle exchange programs cannot eliminate the transfer of these diseases entirely, harm reduction tactics are intended to mitigate the damage untreated drug addictions cause, for both the public and the individual with the affliction. Drug Rehab Pittsburgh asserts safe needle exchange programs are necessary to curtail the rising national rates of new HIV infections stemming from intravenous drug use.
An associate from the drug rehabilitation facility comments, "Safe needle exchanges are not our way of 'condoning' addiction, but we must remain in the realm of reality: users are going to use. Addiction is not a simple condition, but a mental and physical chronic disease. Without extensive rehabilitation, users will remain addicted for their lives. With treatment, recovering addicts have all of the tools they need to stay away from addictive substances, but what happens when they've finally gotten themselves to treatment, but they've contracted a deadly communicable disease from using dirty needles?
"It's too easy to say they shouldn't use dirty needles, because addiction makes you do anything to get high, to satisfy the physical aspect of the disease. The only thing we can do is give them a means to mitigate the damage addiction does while it remains untreated. Needle exchange programs safeguard addicts from further complications in the future, and promote safe environments for the public.
"Another aspect not largely addressed are the addiction professionals who have chosen to work in a high risk field. Safe needle exchange programs protect us too, while we work to rehabilitate recovering addicts."
Drug Rehab Pittsburgh specializes in heroin rehab in Pittsburgh and drug rehab in Pittsburgh. The drug treatment facility accepts clients from all over Pennsylvania, and helps recovering addicts discover the underlying causes of addiction. The center provides clients with immediate medically assisted drug treatment to prevent the illness of withdrawal. Drug Rehab Pittsburgh offers drug detox, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, and extensive drug counseling.
For more information about Drug Rehab Pittsburgh call (412)444-7232 or visit http://drugrehabpittsburgh.net for more information.
About Drug Rehab Pittsburgh:
Drug Rehab Pittsburgh is a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center dedicated to providing superior drug and alcohol addiction treatment services. The drug treatment facility in Pittsburgh provides clients with drug detox, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, and extensive drug counseling to redress addiction at the core. For information on treatment call (412)444-7232.
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