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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kelly McEvers, and this is Embedded, an NPR podcast where we take a story from the news and go deep. |
| 0:08.2 | And today we're going to Austin, Indiana. |
| 0:10.6 | A town that back in the spring of 2015 was all over the news. |
| 0:15.8 | Virus is spreading in Indiana. |
| 0:18.2 | A rural town in Indiana. |
| 0:19.9 | It's in the small town of Austin. |
| 0:21.4 | It's got a real Austin Indiana as a tricer control and unprecedented outbreak of HIV there. |
| 0:26.6 | It's linked to dirty needles and intravenous drug use. |
| 0:29.6 | Who on a powerful pain killer called Opanah? |
| 0:31.8 | Opanah is stronger than Oxycontin and Ease. |
| 0:34.5 | The opioid crisis in this country has finally led to one of the biggest HIV outbreaks in decades. |
| 0:40.6 | Because people in one small town in Indiana are addicted to a prescription pain killer called Opanah and their sharing needles. |
| 0:49.4 | A lot of reporters went to cover this story. |
| 0:51.8 | On CBS, the reporter talked to one of the few people in Austin, Indiana, |
| 0:55.3 | who was willing to go on the record and say he actually uses this drug, Opanah. |
| 1:00.3 | Kevin Polly was diagnosed with HIV seven weeks ago. |
| 1:04.1 | He has no plans to quit injecting a drug called Opanah. |
| 1:07.8 | He had done it three times today by two this afternoon. |
| 1:12.2 | I'd like to say that I'm going to quit, but I'd probably be blind to you. |
| 1:18.9 | Did you know sharing needles is risky? |
| 1:21.6 | I think we all knew that, but it was in the back of our minds. |
| 1:24.9 | Austin, Indiana is a place of high unemployment and low. |
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