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Atlantic City’s Tourism District Has A Needle Problem. It Can Be Fixed.

By Elinor Comlay | September 27, 2017

Atlantic City’s tourism district is home to New Jersey’s biggest needle exchange. The Oasis Drop In Center on Tennessee Avenue gives out thousands more needles than are returned each week.

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Source: www.njspotlight.com

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Source: www.pressofatlanticcity.com

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Source: www.njspotlight.com

Push Comes To Shove: Legislature Sends Its 2019 Spending Bill To Murphy

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Hard Rock May Have Spent $500M, But Its Really Big Guitar Has A Really Bad Mistake

The 30-foot-tall Gibson Les Paul model was installed Thursday morning at the corner of Absecon Boulevard and North Virginia Avenue in Atlantic City. NJ Advance Media photographer Tim Hawk was there, and captured a pretty major misspelling.

Source: www.nj.com