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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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		<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 Has Record Drug OD Deaths But Health Officials Say Don&#8217;t Know Numbers; Sheriff Has Stats on Getting Inmates off Drugs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County health officials told the County Council on Tuesday they don’t know how many drug overdose deaths there were in the county last year and don’t know how many heroin addicts there are locally—but state statistics show the county is second only to Baltimore City in drug deaths. In contrast, county Sheriff Scott Adams had detailed data on how his new programs are working to combat drug addiction among jail inmates. Another issue raised during the County Council’s worksession was whether to create a “needle exchange” program in the county, with health officials supporting the idea while the Sheriff voiced concerns about “enabling” drug addicts to get free drug needles while state laws prohibit drug “paraphernalia.” Under extended questioning by County Councilor Alan McCarthy (R-1), the county’s health officer, Stephanie Garrity, said she didn’t know how many heroin addicts there are in Cecil County and did not know how many drug overdose deaths there were in the county last year. “I don’t have that,” Garrity said about heroin addiction numbers. And county health department officials also could not answer McCarthy’s questions about the numbers of fatal drug overdoses in the county in the past year and how they compared [&#8230;]]]></description>
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