The current method of drug control consists primarily of law enforcement agencies seizing and imprisoning offenders, rather than administering proper treatment. Although, the United States Government has spent billions of dollars in fighting drugs, particularly through arrests and prisons, the drug problem still seizes to exist. While these efforts have produced large numbers of arrests, incarcerations, seizures, drug use, and the spread of disease, drug related crime still continues at high levels. The increasing availability of sterile syringes through needle exchange programs, pharmacies, and other outlets reduces unsafe injection practices such as needle sharing, curtails transmission of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis, increases safe disposal of used syringes, and helps injecting drug users obtain drug information, treatment, social services, and primary health care.
             Injecting drug users in the United States tend to use syringes with non-removable needles. Needle exchange programs have been defined as, "a facility where drug injectors can obtain sterile needles and syringes and return used injecting equipment" . It is proven that millions of people in the United States inject themselves with drugs in a constant basis. These people, who inject drugs into their bodies, endanger their own health. If they contract HIV or hepatitis, their needle-sharing partners, sexual partners and offspring may be infected. "It is estimated that half of all new HIV infections in the United States are occurring among injection drug users" . In areas where society is exposed to massive police presence, many injectors avoid carrying syringes for more than minimal periods of time, in order to avoid arrest, but thereby causing needle sharing to occur with even greater frequency. "Paraphernalia laws make the manufacture, possession, or distribution of drug paraphernalia a misdemeanor or felony offense; suc
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