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New help for addicted, RHOP offers link to extended services This Rural Health Opportunities Program (RHOP) provides counseling and links to helping services – what the patient needs in order to stay on track and get back into the work force. Click on headline for full story with statistics on the success of he needle exchange program started in Adair County in September 2017 By Linda Waggener with Laura Woodrum RN BSN, Director of Nursing, Lake Cumberland District Health Department, and Jelaine Harlow, Health Educator 3, Adair County Health Department A CDC report identified 220 US counties where factors such as unemployment rates, overdose deaths and sales of prescription painkillers contribute to a high vulnerability for outbreaks of HIV and hepatitis C among injection drug users. Adair County, KY was identified as one of those counties. It is known that both HCV and HIV are commonly spread among IV drug users. Syringe exchange programs have been proven, evidence based to be the most effective method to reduce the spread of hep C and HIV infection. In September 2017, Adair began a syringe exchange program (SEP). Since its inception 142 unduplicated participants have been helped, of those 41 either self-reported or tested positive for HCV and 3 for HIV. Adair County has given out 19,940 syringes and 13,152 have been returned by all participants; 11,590 syringes were dispensed and 11,005 were returned by participants who return to the program more than one time, many on a weekly basis. Since beginning the program in Adair County, the Lake Cumberland District Health Department secured the federal grant, the rural health opioid program (RHOP), to provide case management to substance users and offer referrals such as rehabilitation, job placement, social services. Through the local SEP we are able to refer participants to the program to receive additional services. Through a community partnership with Addiction Recovery Care (arccenters.com) substance use peer counselors are on site weekly to provide counseling and services to participants of SEP. With this partnership four participants between Russell and Adair county have been scheduled to enroll in recovery services. Kentucky Department of Public Health and Kentucky Pharmacist association offered a free naloxone clinic at the Adair County Health Department in November 2017. Sixty members of the community received training and education as well as two doses of free naloxone. For more information, contact the Adair County Health Department at 270- 270-384-2286, or stop by the ACHD at 802 Westlake Drive, Columbia, KY. This story was posted on 2018-06-25 11:01:10
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