Needle Exchange, Part 2: Taking Sanity to a Sick City

The second part of a Community TV forum on Needle Exchange hosted by Steve Pleich, featuring Emily Agur, Jack Bishop, and Veronica Sims--needle exchange workers.

This is the audio portion of the tv show. The entire show, video and all, will be available in the weeks ahead at a time TBA.

Call in with comments at 831-427-3772.

The audio of a previous Community TV show on Needle Exchange is at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb130224.mp3 about five hours into the sound file.

An in-studio interview with Emily Agur and Penelope Jernberg is at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb130221.mp3

Some other voices on needle exchange:

Lawsuit in Canada (2012) about the failure to provide needles in prison: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/ottawa-sued-over-failure-to-provide-needle-exchange-programs-in-prisons-1.970564

Debate of Abbotsford's needle exchange ban (2012): http://metronews.ca/news/vancouver/289603/debate-over-b-c-citys-needle-exchange-ban/

An extensive pro and con, written and audio: http://dbp.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:_Needle_exchanges .

NOTE: This program was originally scheduled to appear March 24th on an earlier show, but had to be postponed for technical difficulties.

Video show times for the full show (which is titled "Positives of Needle Exchange")

+ Tue 04/16/13 11:30 PM Channel 27/73
+ Sun 04/14/13 10:00 AM Channel 27/73
+ Sat 04/13/13 05:00 PM Channel 27/73
+ Tue 04/09/13 09:00 PM Channel 27/73
+ Mon 04/08/13 11:00 AM Channel 27/73
+ Sat 04/06/13 08:00 PM Channel 27/73
Comcast channel 27/ Charter cable channel 73 Santa Cruz County only.
Here is a link to keep track of future plays; http://63.249.67.116/cablecast/public/Show.aspx?ChannelID=3&ShowID=14879