JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes containing cookers and sterile water that people use to shoot up drugs.
Dorothy Waterhouse, program director for the syringe exchange program at the Clark County Health Department, opens a cabinet containing supplies used for the program on Nov. 23 in Jeffersonville, Ind.Â
Joshua Gay, a former participant in the Clark County Health Department's syringe exchange program who is now in recovery from substance use disorder, poses for a portrait in front of his church on Nov. 23 in Austin, Ind.Â
A sharps disposal bin to safely discard used syringes and lancets is installed in Austin, Ind., by the Scott County Health Department, seen on Nov. 23.
A participant in the syringe exchange program receives a blood draw during a visit at the Clark County Health Department on Nov. 23 in Jeffersonville, Ind.Â
Dorothy Waterhouse, program director for the syringe exchange program at the Clark County Health Department, opens a cabinet containing supplies used for the program on Nov. 23 in Jeffersonville, Ind.Â
Joshua Gay, a former participant in the Clark County Health Department's syringe exchange program who is now in recovery from substance use disorder, poses for a portrait in front of his church on Nov. 23 in Austin, Ind.Â
A sharps disposal bin to safely discard used syringes and lancets is installed in Austin, Ind., by the Scott County Health Department, seen on Nov. 23.
A participant in the syringe exchange program receives a blood draw during a visit at the Clark County Health Department on Nov. 23 in Jeffersonville, Ind.Â
