Question
The AB 1344 bill signed in October 2021 by Gavin Newsom prevented opponents of these programs suing over violations of the California Environmental Quality Act to get them shut down. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these public health initiatives. Mike Pence allowed five counties in Southern Indiana to undertake these initiatives after the onset of a December 2014 outbreak, but did not lift a state ban on funding for them.
ANSWER: needle exchange programs [or needle and syringe programs; or open needle exchanges; or NEPs; or NSPs; or syringe exchanges; reject “safe injection sites” or “supervised injection sites”]
[10e] Like methadone clinics and safe sex programs, needle exchanges exemplify this general public health strategy seeking to mitigate the damage of drug use and sexual activity, instead of promoting abstinence.
ANSWER: harm reduction
[10h] The harm reduction movement spread globally from this non-American “smack city,” where psychiatrist Dr. John Marks controversially prescribed heroin in the 1980s. The harm reduction framework itself is synonymous with a “model” named after the county where this is the largest city.
ANSWER: Liverpool (The model is the Mersey Model.)
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Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 0% | 50% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| [Insert Lawyer Joke Here] | Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| It's Joever | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |