Is employee drug testing an ethical practice
... In San Francisco, the AIDS Foundations HIV Prevention Project (HPP) has provided street-based needle exchange services to injecting drug users (IDUs) since 1993. ... Needle exchange programs are successful because of a recent study that compared cities with a low rate of HIV infections among drug injectors with cities in which drug injectors had high rates of infection. ... Extensive research indicates that needle exchange programs do not encourage illegal drug use and can, in fact, reduce drug use through effective referrals to drug treatment and counseling. ... The exchange programs encourage drug user to continue using. Research show that the IV drug user who shares needles will also engage in other risky behaviors such as having unprotected sex.