n and other programs have thus addressed the matter with the hope of reducing the incidence of high risk behavior, with mixed results. Lishner and Look cite the case of Seattle where there have been liberal laws to make acquisition of needles relatively easy, the assumption being that needle sharing would then not be a significant problem. However, a recent survey shows that it remains a significant problem and that addicts still share needles and that they still fail to sterilize their needles between uses (Lishner and Look, 1990, 1475-1483).
Vlahov, Anthony, Celentano, and Solomon (1991) consider how injection practices may have changed over the course of the AIDS epidemic and survey 421 adult IV drug users to find the answer. They found that high risk behavior was being reduced while safer IV drug use was being practiced. They found that among IV drug users who took their first injection between 1982 and 1987, the use of new sterile needles to self-administer drugs increased along with its corollary beha
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