Souder wants NIH to skew the truth to protect his position

One of America's biggest prohibition profiteers, Mark Souder is at it again. He's asking the National Institutes of Health to spend your tax dollars proving his latest dunderheaded theory that needle exchange and harm reduction programs are more dangerous than allowing addicts to shoot up on the street.

He has no scientific or medical background but does have a clear agenda and requests that agency come up with some research that specifically prove his hypothesis rather than asking for an impartial and scientifically based study.

Of course, as Dr Alex Wodak points out in a rebuttal letter to the agency, seven studies disproving Souder's contentions have already been funded by the taxpayers.

Souder is so desperate to protect the political power he enjoys under the prohibition that he's willing to waste your money and risk the lives of US citizens with bad science to do so. Don't let him get away with it. Visit Drug Policy Alliance, and take action against this folly.