Expert warns Trump’s drastic cuts to HHS will have far-reaching consequences

Expert warns Trump’s drastic cuts to HHS will have far-reaching consequences

Ten years ago, as the opioid epidemic ripped through communities across the United States, the recreational use of oxymorphone with contaminated needles led to an explosion of new HIV infections in southern Indiana’s Scott County. In places like Austin, a city with about 4,000 residents, the rate of diagnoses quickly ballooned to levels seen in some of the hardest-hit nations of sub-Saharan Africa, more than 50 times higher than the national ave…