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Webpage: http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/indiana/2016/12/27/clark-county-needle-exc
Pubdate: Tue, 27 Dec 2016
Source: Courier-Journal, The (Louisville, KY)
Copyright: 2016 The Courier-Journal
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Website: http://www.courier-journal.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/97
Author: Madeleine Winer , Courier-Journal
CLARK COUNTY SETS NEEDLE-EXCHANGE LAUNCH DAY
After over a year of waiting for a needle exchange, the Clark County
Health Department will open its syringe exchange at the end of January.
The needle exchange, located at 1301 Akers Ave. in Jeffersonville, will
start Jan. 26 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and be open each Thursday from then
on. Dr. Kevin Burke, the Clark County health commissioner, said he hopes
the program will eventually provide services two days a week and operate
the needle exchange at other locations.
"It's a need for sure that I believe is growing as the supply of pills is
diminished by tighter regulations and changing physician practices," Burke
said of the needle exchange. "Unfortunately, people are switching to
heroin and the dangers that it creates are overdose epidemics.
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