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Five years ago, Indiana experienced one of the nation’s worst HIV outbreaks. Mike Pence was governor then, and he approved a needle exchange to keep the…
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Researchers have known for decades programs that provide clean syringes to injection drug users lower transmission rates of diseases like HIV and…
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Four days a week, public health nurse Brittany Combs drives her SUV around the small town of Austin, Indiana, handing out clean needles to injection drug…
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Also, troubling side effects of the crackdown on prescription painkiller abuse, an easier choice near the end of life, and drug companies find a sneaky…
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Getting Right, Part 2Read our entire Getting Right series.Heading out into the field, public health nurse Brittany Combs is a little angry, and in a…
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A new initiative known as Project Cultivate aims to connect counties with the resources they need to start a needle exchange program from scratch.Needle…
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A couple of weeks ago, Scott County public health nurse Brittany Combs started getting a lot more calls asking about STD testing.“We kinda just talked…