It can seem counterintuitive to provide clean syringes to individuals who inject drugs. After all, why make it easier to consume illicit substances that are increasingly resulting in overdoses? In the ...

With complaints about syringe litter on the rise, the New York City Council is considering a new way to keep needles off of sidewalks and out of parks: Paying drug users to turn them in. Similar to a ...

Kim Botteicher hardly thinks of herself as a criminal. On the main floor of a former Catholic church in Bolivar, Pennsylvania, Botteicher runs a flower shop and cafe. In the former church’s basement, ...

For Gjvar Payne, harm reduction for people who use drugs — especially during the deadly opioid overdose epidemic — is fundamentally about dignity. “We’re human beings. We’re all going to make ...

A bill to legalize syringe services programs across the state that recently cleared a key Pennsylvania House committee in a mostly party-line vote is getting a mixed reaction from lawmakers, treatment ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Some organizations tasked with cleaning up downtown Portland say the number of needles they’re finding is increasing exponentially. Just in the past ’21-’22 fiscal year, ...

SANTA CRUZ — A state appellate panel has set aside a lower court’s ruling favoring a local group’s clean syringe distribution efforts. In an opinion published Monday, the Third Appellate District ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow clean syringe services to operate legally across the commonwealth. The Pa. House Judiciary Committee voted 15-10 last ...

In our clinical training as local medical students, we’ve met patients whose lives could have been transformed by access to syringe service programs. The teen with HIV whose body shuts down when she ...

A bill to legalize syringe services programs across Pennsylvania that recently cleared a key state House committee in a mostly party-line vote is getting a mixed reaction from lawmakers, treatment ...