AUSTIN, Ind. — An Indiana county once home to America’s worst drug-fueled HIV outbreak voted Wednesday to scrap the syringe exchange program credited with halting the epidemic. The Scott County ...

Do needle exchange programs promote safety and better public health by ensuring that drug users – who probably will be using those drugs anyway – at least are using clean syringes while they’re doing ...

There is a nationwide spike in drug overdose deaths. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that, as of May 2020, the number is the highest amount of overdose deaths ever recorded in a 12 ...

Pueblo City Council’s decision earlier this week to ban syringe distribution to injection-drug users in its city limits prompted an El Paso County commissioner to check into the issue. What ...

GRAND FORKS – The Grand Forks City Council on Monday recommended that a syringe service program in Grand Forks stay in place. The motion to end the program failed in a tie, 3-3, during Monday's ...

The Boise Police Department seized drug paraphernalia and electronics from the Idaho Harm Reduction Project’s offices this month. A lawmaker now proposes to repeal the state’s entire needle exchange ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Much of Charleston City Council’s time Monday evening was spent discussing a proposal from the Women’s Health Center of West Virginia on a needle exchange program to be located at ...

Orange County’s first-ever needle exchange program launched this month with little attention, though its mission is to help contain two big health problems in Central Florida — the rising number of ...

SANTA CRUZ — For more than 30 years, public health officials and nonprofits in California have provided clean hypodermic needles to people who use them to inject drugs. For nearly that entire time, ...

A state employee printed pamphlets for the Idaho Harm Reduction Project that detailed step-by-step instructions on how to use several drugs, including methamphetamine and crack cocaine, before the ...

Wayne County's needle exchange program will end June 30 despite the county health department's recommendation to continue. County commissioners cited a lack of significant data showing the program's ...

Syringe services supplies are laid out on a conference room table in the City-County Building. The City of Pittsburgh is gearing up to launch its own needle exchange program in August. At a downtown ...