MadCo Re-Instates Needle Exchange Program

Madison County’s commissioners have voted in favor of re-instating a needle exchange program in the county. Commissioners gave the okay to a two-year contract with Aspire Indiana to start the program after pleas from the county health officer to help combat the hepatitis C epidemic. Jerry Landers, executive director of Aspire Indiana, says “No one wants a needle exchange program,”…“but we believe there is a need.”