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Indiana House votes to give counties power to create needle exchanges

By Network Indiana | Published on in Health
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A year after allowing the distribution of clean needles to drug addicts, Indiana is halfway to making that process easier. The House voted 72-26 to scrap a requirement that the state health commissioner approve requests to create needle exchanges, and allow counties to make that decision on their own.