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Junkies won’t be learning better ways to shoot up on the taxpayers’ dime after all.

A city-funded pamphlet instructing New Yorkers on ways to inject heroin will not be produced in the coming fiscal year, city Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said yesterday.

The fliers — which contain tips on how to prepare the highly addictive drug and inject it — were first uncovered by The Post in January.

Their goal and cost — $32,000 last year for 70,000 fliers — infuriated lawmakers and crime fighters, even as health advocates defended the pamphlets as a way to teach addicts safer means to shoot up.

The City Council raised the issue yesterday during a budget hearing.

“I can find a real easy place to make some [budget] cuts. Do you have any more money in the budget for that silly pamphlet on how to take heroin safely this year?” Councilman Peter Vallone (D-Queens) asked Farley.

Farley defended the program, but said his agency will not produce additional copies in the next fiscal year, which begins July 1.

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