The Clark County Health Department has stopped giving out certain publicly funded harm reduction supplies as part of its syringe services program, to comply with a recent federal executive order. Clark County is awaiting clarification on what the order means for their funding.

The local health department is still providing privately funded supplies and officials hope the program can weather other potential funding or legislative challenges.

The Clark County Health Department opened its syringe services program in 2017. That came nearly two years after Scott County opened the first in the state in response to a historic HIV outbreak that garnered national attention.

The program provides clean, unused syringes in exchange for used ones. It also offers other supplies for safer and more san

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