Kim Botteicher works in the basement of a Bolivar church. She provides syringe services as part of her charitable work. Credit: Nate Smallwood for Spotlight PA This article is part of The State of ...

In March 2024, Oregon quashed its efforts to decriminalize illicit drugs, which would have been the first of such laws in the nation, but the debate on how to curb the growing drug overdose epidemic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NYC workers may be forced to clean up drug needles next to syringe ‘exchange’ spots thanks to new bill Workers at “needle exchange ...

Decades of research show that syringe programs increase public order, reduce syringe litter, decrease needle-stick injuries, prevent HIV and hepatitis C and are a critical bridge to addiction ...

They hide in weeds along hiking trails and in playground grass. They wash into rivers and float downstream to land on beaches. They pepper baseball dugouts, sidewalks and streets. Syringes left by ...

"Let's rethink glass," says specialty glass and glass ceramics developer Schott (Elmsford, NY) on its website. Sometimes, that revisionist thinking leads to plastics. At Interphex 2015, which was held ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Providing drug users with syringes and pipes for public health purposes keeps addicts "in a state of bondage," a dealer-turned-activist told Fox News. The city has established more ...

In the fight against drug overdoses and bloodborne diseases, some Republican and Democratic state lawmakers want to allow groups to hand out medical syringes to drug users in Pennsylvania. Groups such ...

Workers at “needle exchange” spots across the city may be forced to collect used drug syringes that end up as litter under a new bill unveiled Thursday. Council member Oswald Feliz’s new bill would ...