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Health Official Discusses Charleston's Shuttered Needle Exchange Program
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:14:25
Publish Date: 2018-05-18 08:37:51
Description: On this West Virginia Morning, one of the ripple effects of the opioid epidemic is an increase in blood-borne diseases like hepatitis or HIV. A key method to prevent the spread of such diseases, its needle exchange program, is proving to be controversial in West Virginia’s capital city. The program was eventually suspended. Inside Appalachia host Jessica Lilly recently spoke with the Charleston-Kanawha Health Department’s spokesperson to find out more.
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