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Buttons are displayed at a tent during a health event June 26 in Charleston. Volunteers at the tent passed out the buttons along with free doses of naloxone, a drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose by helping the person breathe again. Activists at the event called on the city of Charleston to declare a public health emergency for new HIV cases and prescription drug overdoses.
Photo by John Raby/AP
In this March file photo, Solutions Oriented Addiction Response organizer Brooke Parker holds an HIV testing kit in Charleston. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued preliminary findings of an investigation into a West Virginia county with one of the nationâs highest spikes in HIV cases among intravenous drug users. The findings showed emergency departments and inpatient medical personnel rarely conducted HIV testing on intravenous drug users who were patients.