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New York: Lawmaker Drafts Bill to Study Syringe Use

From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

December 4, 2007

Assembly member Andrew Raia is drafting a bill that would ask "the [state] department of health to study all aspects of single-use, nonreusable syringes and make a recommendation about where they can be used," the East Northport Republican said. Raia is taking the action in response to the case of Dr. Harvey Finkelstein, a Dix Hills anesthesiologist who reused injection syringes to extract medication from multidose vials, thereby contaminating them and transmitting at least one case of hepatitis C infection. However, department spokesperson Claudia Hutton said there are instances where the reuse of syringes may be appropriate, and the department is more interested in seeing the elimination of multidose vials.

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Adapted from:
Newsday (New York)
11.30.2007; Ridgely Ochs

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