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🌱 How Jeffersonville’s syringe program is fighting to survive new restrictions

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Hey there, Jeffersonville! Let's get started with what's happening in and around town. Read on and stay in the loop. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How Jeffersonville’s syringe program is fighting to survive new restrictions
  • Why Jeffersonville’s syringe exchange is suddenly at risk
  • How Jeffersonville’s syringe program is surviving Trump’s funding crackdown

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📰 News we're reading

1. Indiana community struggles to keep a syringe program going after Trump's order (wishtv.com) — Health workers in Jeffersonville’s Clark County Health Department are scrambling to keep their syringe exchange program going after a Trump executive order restricted federally funded supplies. The program, which has strong local impact through overdose reversals and treatment referrals, now relies on privately funded “mystery bags” while facing a looming state law expiration that could threaten its future.
   

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2. National and International News in Focus: Dec. 22 (wktv.com) — Jeffersonville health workers are fighting to keep their syringe exchange program going after a Trump executive order barred using federal substance-abuse grants for items like cookers and tourniquets. While needles already couldn’t be bought with federal money, this new restriction is intensifying statewide opposition in Indiana, even as research shows syringe programs curb disease and connect people to treatment.
   

3. Addiction-stricken community struggles to keep a syringe program going after Trump's order (wjtv.com) — Health workers in Jeffersonville’s Clark County Health Department are scrambling to keep their syringe exchange program alive after a Trump executive order cut off federal funding for key supplies like cookers and tourniquets. Using private money and “mystery bags,” they’re still providing clean injection tools, naloxone, and treatment referrals, even as Indiana’s underlying syringe-exchange law is set to expire next July.
   

4. Melvin Cecil Lemons, Jr. (jpinews.com) — Family and friends in Jeffersonville are mourning alongside relatives across Indiana and Kentucky after the passing of 62-year-old Melvin Cecil Lemons Jr. of Sellersburg. The well-known self-contractor and outdoorsman leaves behind his mother in New Albany, daughters, and a sister residing in Jeffersonville, along with several grandchildren who will cherish his memory.
   

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