title: Syringe prescription study unexpected bonus: helping long-time users quit drugs.
abstract: A study to see if syringe prescription by physicians could reduce needle sharing also found an additional bonus -- helping some clients get off drugs, by getting them into medical care and  making possible conversations which otherwise would not happen.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: James
mesh_terms: D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006265:Health Care Coalitions / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012237:Rhode Island; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000534:rehabilitation; D013594:Syringes