Indiana house committee passes needle exchange program

[salin]

2. Sadly, comprehensive - public health - Indiana + stigmatized and

vilified people at-risk ... these things don't often mix well together here. We can hope.

The gov. fix was very short - but the fact that a house committee acted within 2-business days suggests that he did intend for the lift on the ban would give time for a bigger fix.

This part of the state is very rural - many scattered (not far apart) very small communities (1,000-4,000) with often very little local infrastructure.

The only hopeful thing right now is that a local (r) sheriff started raising the flag on concern and need for intervention - and that now the local state sen (r), and a few house reps have started calls for action - and moved something forward.