By Melissa Patrick, Kentucky Health News · July 20, 2026
President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, are cutting the federal budget for harm reduction initiatives that are meant to make illicit drug use less deadly, such as syringe exchange programs and drug testing strips, Amanda Friedman reports for Politico. But some red states are boosting their own funding for those progr…
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