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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>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2018/08/cecil-county-health-dept-considers-addicts-needle-exchange-after-3-years-of-talk-county-council-politically-wary-but-county-exec-backs-effort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2018 22:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Cecil County Budget: Health Dept. Asks $3 Million, Hotel Tax Delayed; Now Heavy Lifting Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2017 22:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After weeks of listening to department heads defend and explain their budget proposals, the Cecil County Council will hear from citizens next week and then the heavy lifting begins: deciding whether to accept, or cut, County Executive Alan McCarthy’s proposed Fiscal 2018 budget that would boost property tax rates and raise income taxes. Many local residents have already weighed in during public comment sessions at Council meetings, with schools advocates and teachers urging support for the education budget while a local anti-tax group has launched an automated email campaign to oppose the budget’s tax boosts. McCarthy’s budget would raise the property tax rate by 5-cents while raising the income tax rate from 2.8 percent to 3 percent. But the new budget proposal would be fully financed by annual revenues, for the first time in many years, and would not raid a “fund balance” safety-net account that was nearly wiped out by deficit-spending during his predecessor’s four-year term. In the final round of budget hearings before the County Council on 5/16/2017, the Health Department budget, and its key role in combatting the illegal drug epidemic and overdose deaths, was reviewed. The Cecil County Health Department is actually a state agency, staffed [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Drug Deaths Rise Again, New Stats Show; County Advances Private Rehab Hospital Aimed at Non-Local Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 19:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT Drug overdose deaths in Cecil County continue to rise to record levels, according to newly released state data, but members of the county’s drug abuse council were not informed of the statistics at a Thursday meeting. At the same time, county agencies and officials have rapidly advanced a proposed private drug rehab hospital catering to non-local patients while similar proposals elsewhere have faced months of questions and local reviews. Cecil Times reviewed newly-released data from the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, buried in spreadsheets on the agency’s website, showing that in the second quarter of this year, drug overdose deaths in Cecil County continued to rise, with another 10 drug deaths reported. During the first quarter of the year, there were also 10 fatal drug overdoses, bringing the total for the first six months of the year to 20. (In contrast, drug deaths in the county for the first six months of 2013 were 13.) At this pace, the county is on track for a record number of drug-related fatalities this year. The worst previous full-year tally was 28 in 2011—which on a population-adjusted basis gave Cecil County a death rate higher than [&#8230;]]]></description>
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