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		<title>Cecil County Names New Health Officer with Top Credentials; State Opioid Program Cites Cecil as 2nd Highest OD Death Rate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2019 22:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County will have a new, non-local Health Officer with impressive educational credentials and experience in public health issues, taking over an agency that has struggled to address the drug crisis even as a new state report shows the county again has the second-worst opioid overdose death rate in Maryland. Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy has announced his selection of Lauren Levy, of Towson, as the new health officer, coming to the county from executive and research positions in public health with the University of Maryland School of Medicine and School of Law. She will replace Laurie Humphries, a veteran employee of the local Health Department, who has been the Acting Health Officer since Stephanie Garrity announced her retirement in mid-2018. Levy, who assumes her position later this month, will face the challenges highlighted in a new report issued by the state’s Opioid Operational Command Center (OOCC) that Cecil County’s opioid overdose death rate, measured on a population/ per-capita basis, was second only to Baltimore City in 2018 and also over a longer period from 2013 to 2017. “I am privileged to welcome Ms. Lauren Levy to this exponentially important position in Cecil County,” McCarthy said in a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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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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		<title>Cecil County Homeless Count at 193 (Maybe), Health Dept. Says; Drug Deaths at 21 This Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2017 15:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homelessness in Cecil County is nearly as high as Harford County’s figures, although Cecil’s overall population is half that of its nearest neighbor. And county Sheriff’s Office data on drug overdose fatalities so far this year shows 21 deaths, well on the way to a record number, according to testimony to the Cecil County Council on Tuesday (5/23/2017). Members of the County Council and County Executive Alan McCarthy met with Stephanie Garrity, the director of the local Health Department, as the county’s “Board of Health” to hear reports on the annual count of homeless people in the county, required by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of federal grants programs to aid the homeless. Garrity said the one-time count, known as a “point in time” tally, found 193 homeless people in the county—an increase from the 167 counted last year. Health officials attributed the increase to a change in methodology this year—actually visiting three areas where the homeless congregate. Gwen Parrack, the health department’s “special populations” director and supervisor of the homeless people count, told the County Council that for the “first time” this year, the health department, using volunteers, made in-person contact with homeless people [&#8230;]]]></description>
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