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Prescription painkiller abuse sparked an HIV outbreak in rural Indiana. Kelly McEvers takes NPR's new podcast, Embedded, inside the home where IV drug users meet.
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Amid fears that providing free, clean needles would promote illegal drug use, Congress passed a law prohibiting the use of federal funds to support needle…
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When an outbreak of HIV among injection drug users was declared in rural Scott County, Indiana, in February, it made national headlines. HIV was supposed…
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This episode of Sick, a new podcast from Side Effects Public Media, tells the story of Kevin Polly, a man who has to leave his town behind in order to…
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If a town could be said to hit rock bottom, Austin, Indiana, did so this year. Drug abuse has been out of hand there for some time, but it took the worst…
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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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Getting Right, Part 3Read the whole Getting Right series.On a recent Thursday afternoon, Police Chief Don Spicer is on patrol in Austin, Indiana. He…
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Getting Right, Part 4: A Person Struggling With Addiction Wakes UpRead the entire Getting Right series.It’s early in the morning, and Kevin Polly is…
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Ravaged by one of the worst outbreaks of HIV in recent history and an underlying epidemic of injection drug addiction, a small rural community is changing…
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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…