A major setback came in 2021, when Scott County Commissioners voted to end a needle exchange program that was established in response to the outbreak. 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling the leading version of naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter.

There are resources available to those battling addiction in Scott County, however there is currently no needle exchange program.

Dr. William Cooke was on the frontlines of the 2015 HIV outbreak in Scott County, Ind.

People have visited the syringe exchange more than 115,000 times, and officials have given out more than 5 million sterile syringes.