Needle exchange coming to Clark County, Ind

http://www.whas11.com/news/local/needle-exchange-coming-to-clark-county-ind-/310897530

This story was covered on all four major TV networks last night in the Louisville, KY metro area.  The story concerns Clark Co Indiana which is south central Indiana on the Ohio river bordering Louisville, KY..   and it is connect to Scott County to the north where about 1.5 yrs ago there was a epidemic of 180+ HIV+, Hep B&C in a small 25,000 pop county Scott County Indiana and their opiate epidemic

True to Indiana’s opiophobic nature… this program is NOT BEING FUNDED BY THE STATE… it is stated in the news piece that it will depend on grant money and volunteers.

To be clear, I am in favor of  a clean needle programs. Of course, this program does nothing about these people suffering from the mental health disease of addictive personality disorder getting “clean opiates”.  There was reports just yesterday that Heroin – 100 miles away in Cincinnati, OH 174 heroin overdoses in 6 days in Cincinnati was being mixed with  carfentanyl which is 10,000 TIMES MORE POTENT THAN MORPHINE and legally used to sedate large animals.

Up until now, the Heroin mixture that has been killing so many has been mixed with acetyl fentanyl which is 25 to 50 times more potent than Morphine.

This clean needle program just may help put a halt to the spread of HIV + and HEP B&C, but will do little/nothing about those who are ODing on street drugs.  Of course, each person with HIV +, HEP B&C has a lifetime healthcare cost of upwards to $750,000 EACH.

Of course, all too many of these substance abuse people are unemployed and all of their medical care is provided by Medicaid…  guess who funds Medicaid ???  TAXPAYERS ???

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