Syringe exchange program

This week on WBAA’s Ask The Mayor, we reflect on 2017 with Lafayette’s Tony Roswarski.His city has finished some major construction projects, is waiting…

By the slimmest of margins, Tippecanoe County’s needle exchange program will survive for at least one more year.A 2-1 vote by the county commissioners…

The Indiana Senate has sent a bill allowing counties to start their own syringe exchanges to the governor for his signature. Current law says programs…

Indiana senators are looking to add more restrictions and regulations to county syringe exchange programs, or SEPs.Four amendments have been added a bill…

A bill that would give counties the ability to set up needle exchanges without first getting state approval is one step closer to becoming law.A Senate…

Tippecanoe County has received about one-fourth of the grant money it requested to fund a syringe exchange services program aimed at slowing the spread of…

A governor-approved bill that would give Indiana counties and municipalities the ability to set up their own syringe exchanges passed its first hurtle,…

Tippecanoe County officials may be coalescing around the idea of using a mobile unit to house the county’s recently-approved syringe services…

The Tippecanoe County Commissioners voted Monday to endorse a plan to establish a syringe exchange and services program aimed at reducing the spread of…

Since 2015, Indiana counties have established syringe-exchange programs with the hopes of curbing the spread of HIV and hepatitis.The latest county to…