Assume You Work for a County Public Health Department and Are

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Essay

Assume you work for a county public health department and are developing a social marketing plan to reduce the spread of disease through contaminated needles among drug-injection users? You've chosen a focus of a needle exchange program. What do you say to a colleague who is working on reducing the use of drugs among this population and concerned this will increase use?

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