B2 Ten people distributing clean needles were arrested.

In contrast, programs to distribute needles have begun in several foreign cities.

Health officials have long suggested that such transmission could be slowed by distributing clean needles to addicts.

In some cases, the strategies are straightforward: push condoms, distribute clean needles.

Q. Since law enforcement has not significantly curbed the availability of drugs, how can it object to distributing needles?

But to date, no government agency has distributed needles in this country.

She vowed earlier this year to distribute needles in defiance of the law.

Later, when the Mayor asked the group to raise their hands if they thought the government should distribute clean needles to drug users, only two people did.

The program was operated by activists who used the donations to distribute clean needles to a small number of heroin addicts.

"If they were to come back and distribute needles again, they would be arrested again for it."