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/ he Madison County Health Department's harm reduction program operates a van to provide training and doses of Narcan in area communities such as Richmond. The Madison County health department in Kentucky has kept its harm reduction program open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to continue its work against the other epidemic afflicting the region: the addiction crisis. Through the program, people can exchange needles, receive referrals for addiction treatment services, and get training to use the overdose-reversal drug Narcan. Laura Nagle, a risk reduction specialist at the department, said ...

>> can you tell me if in that room if people were trying to get out of that room, are there exits available, a number of exits available for that? what does it look like. >> i don't know which room they were in this morning, i can't comment. i'm sorry. >> what's next for you in your position, what do you have to do, who do you have to call? >> we're already in touch, i have been in touch with my colleague, the ceo at the jcc and with the jewish security community director and community relations director. we're going to figure out what we need to do as a community to pull together. that will h...

What -- i think the one survey recently showed that there's some 50,000, those who are jewish, who practice either religiously and/or culturally. >> that's correct, yeah. we just completed a community study in 2017, and we're just shy of 50,000 jews in the greater pittsburgh area. and this neighborhood specifically, squirrel hill, the jewish community's very tight, even though people may belong to different synagogues and worship at different places. people know each other. and you know, so, it's like a giant family here. >> what, from what you know here, jeffrey, in terms of the steps that ma...