The Department of Health is looking into the possibility of supplying clean needles to drug addicts.

Reports shows drug addict injecting himself with a needle from 1985.

Interview Doctor James Walsh on the idea of giving clean needles to drug addicts in an attempt to combat Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among intravenous drug users.

The reporter is George Devlin.

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