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, ...

Among those who spoke out against a potential safe needle exchange ordinance was Auburn’s Republican state Rep. Laurel Libby, ...

Injection drug use across the United States is increasing as the misuse of prescription and synthetic opioids rages on. Many people who misuse drugs choose to inject because it delivers a faster, more ...

As Pueblo City Council debates whether to ban syringe access programs in the city, the agencies that operate them in Pueblo are coming forward to defend them. The Southern Colorado Harm Reduction ...

TULSA, Okla. — IV drug users in Oklahoma could legally exchange needles if two bipartisan bills become law. House Bill 3028 and Senate Bill 1346 propose legalizing needle exchanges. The first known ...

ROSEVILLE -- Controversial clean drug needle exchange programs are once again a topic of debate in Placer County. Wednesday night, the city of Roseville took center stage. The agenda item comes on the ...

I'm concerned that the current conversation on needle exchange policy is being driven less by evidence and more by discomfort ...

Opioid overdose deaths in Orange County are rising sharply, with annual deaths nearly tripling in the four years ending in 2021. It is no coincidence that for much of that time, and again today, ...

More than a quarter of AIDS cases in the U.S. among people age 13 or older are directly linked to injection drug use. 3 When mother-to-child HIV transmission is taken into account, roughly 35 percent ...

Auburn does not currently have a needle exchange program and has a moratorium in place that prevents one from opening.

DENVER — Under a 1997 city ordinance, needle exchange programs in Denver cannot be closer than 1,000 feet from schools and daycares. The ordinance also limits the city to opening no more than three ...

As Pennsylvania remains a leader in the nation’s still-worsening overdose crisis and the Lehigh Valley sees fresh evidence of its severity, a pair of lawmakers want to legalize needle-exchange ...