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		<title>Cecil County Health Dept. Considers Addicts&#8217; Needle Exchange, After 3 Years of Talk; County Council Politically Wary but County Exec Backs Effort</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Health Department is considering creation of a “clean” needle exchange program for intravenous users of illegal drugs, as a way to prevent HIV and Hepatitis C infections and reach addicts with treatment options. The idea was first broached to the County Council three years ago but no action was taken by health officials, despite the exponential growth of opioid overdose deaths in the county and rising infection rates. But, as a consultant outlined the grim statistics of the opioid crisis to the County Council on Tuesday (8//14/2018), members of the Council sought to avoid any political responsibility for making a decision on whether to create such a program here. However, the pioneer of needle exchange programs in the state, Baltimore City, has shown extraordinary reductions in HIV infection rates due to its program, city officials told Cecil Times. Councilor Jackie Gregory (R-5) said the County Council does not have “a lot to say” about drug policy and it was up to the Health Department to decide. She said the real problem was that addicts were getting “a lot of bad drugs,” including heroin laced with the deadly fentanyl, not infections from re-use of needles. She also said [&#8230;]]]></description>
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