Lawmakers have voted to extend the program, but with new restrictions some health professionals say could limit its effectiveness.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recently published study from Karolinska Institutet shows that mortality among people who inject drugs enrolled in the Stockholm needle and syringe program declined over a 10-year period, with a ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) -- Santa Ana Mayor Valerie Amezcua has serious concerns about the California Department of Public Health's decision to approve an application to provide syringe delivery and ...

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 ...