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

Syringe exchange has always been a tough political issue in Indiana. This year, lawmakers are proposing further restrictions ...

The Indiana House added several restrictions to the state's syringe exchange programs, but the bill's authors are just ...

Carrie O’Brien, Safer Steps Program Manager for the Damien Center is photographed in the pharmacy at the Center on Wednesday, ...

Syringes are probably among the top three concerns that I hear from the business community,” the CEO of the local chamber of ...

Renewing and sustaining syringe exchange programs is essential to protecting public health, saving lives and maintaining the ...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, “DO NOT USE.” They contain cookers and sterile water that people use to ...

For Indiana’s syringe exchange programs to survive, they might face new restrictions that public health advocates say will undercut efforts to help intravenous drug abusers kick their addictions. The ...

KNOXVILLE — A new program in Knoxville aims to reduce the spread of disease and put a dent in the overdose epidemic. The Syringe Service Program allows drug users to exchange dirty syringes used to ...

Evergreen Health Services’ syringe-exchange program has started in Jamestown. Kimberly Lombard, Evergreen Health Services senior director of grants management and quality, said the program stared in ...

A needle exchange program is no longer being proposed in Santa Ana after the Harm Reduction Institute pulled its application with the state to provide the service. This comes after a years’ long ...