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At the height of her addiction to heroin, Tracey Helton Mitchell lived in an alley and sold her body. Now she works as an addiction specialist helping others. Her new memoir is The Big Fix.
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New Access To Federal Funds For Syringe Exchange Is Welcome Support For Rural Areas Facing AddictionThe needle exchange in Fayette County, Ind. is hidden in a back office at the health department. Paula Maupin, the county’s public health nurse, runs the…
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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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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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On a recent afternoon, Brittany Combs drove a white SUV through a neighborhood at the northern end of Austin, Indiana. In the back of her vehicle, there…
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The Indiana General Assembly took action Wednesday on a bill that would allow needle exchanges in some counties. Needle exchanges allow drug users to…
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The rise in heroin use in the town of Turners Falls, Mass., has led to another problem: a proliferation of discarded hypodermic needles. Police can't keep up, so they've asked residents to help.
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More than 130 people have tested positive since December, and the outbreak is no longer contained to just Scott County.As the number of people living with…
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Legislation that would allow needle exchanges in some Indiana counties cleared the House Public Health Committee on Monday. Last week, Gov. Mike Pence…