The Santa Monica Coalition has filed a lawsuit against County Health Director Barbara Ferrer, the Los Angeles County Health Department and the Venice Family Clinic in connection with the Needle ...

The country is facing a drug overdose crisis, and those impacts are felt in the Pacific Northwest as well. The man at the center of a controversial independent needle exchange program in North Bend ...

Pennsylvania is one of a dozen states where providing drug users with clean syringes to help prevent infection is not authorized. Now there's a push to change the state law. People who work in ...

LOWELL — Do syringe service programs, where persons who inject drugs can access sterile needles and syringes, belong near schools and parks and other areas that attract families and children? And does ...

As Indiana officials struggled to contain an outbreak of HIV among people who injected drugs, then-Gov. Mike Pence reluctantly followed the urgings of public health officials and cleared the way for ...

It’s about preventing avoidable illness and death and improving public safety,” Monroe County Commissioner Jody Madeira said.

PROGRAM THAT’S AIMED AT CLEANING UP AREAS OF DOWNTOWN. ONE SWEEP AT A TIME. NEW CREWS ARE VISIBLE IN MANCHESTER’S BUSINESS DISTRICT, WITH ONE GOAL TO CLEAN THINGS UP. WE’RE ACTUALLY PROUD OF WHAT ...

Syringe exchange has always been a tough political issue in Indiana. This year, lawmakers are proposing further restrictions on the state's program.

GRAND FORKS – The Grand Forks City Council on Monday voted to keep the city's current needle exchange program, but to limit the maximum number of needles given out at any one time to 10. At its last ...

Needle-sharing programs, also referred to as needle exchange or syringe services programs, are integral to public health efforts. These initiatives supply clean needles and syringes to individuals who ...

A new Australian-first study from the Burnet Institute has found that every dollar invested in Australian prison needle and syringe programs could save more than two dollars in treatment costs for ...