INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ADAMS) – A bill that lets counties continue syringe service programs with an ID mandate has become law without the signature of Governor Mike Braun. He said yesterday at a news conference that he was not going to sign it, “but I’m not going to veto it.”
The needle exchange program is in six counties in Indiana and Braun says the state needs “to get at the underlying issue of what it was done for in the first place, to where you don’t use that as a crutch going forward.”
The program started in 2015 after around 200 people contracted HIV in Scott County by sharing needles.
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