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 ...

Government-supported syringe exchange programs underscore the importance of prevention in averting the consequences of ...

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

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 ...

Discarded syringes are turning up again across Boston, but the spike is hitting some neighborhoods much harder than others. While certain parts of the city have seen declines, places like the South ...

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 ...

Kim Botteicher hardly thinks of herself as a criminal. On the main floor of a former Catholic church in Bolivar, Pennsylvania, Botteicher runs a flower shop and cafe. In the former church’s basement, ...

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 ...

People using Indiana's needle exchange program will have to prove they live in the county providing the service as part of new legislation.

FRAMINGHAM — An organization that provides a variety of harm reduction services, from safer sex to syringes and Narcan, and which is looking for a new space in the city has drawn opposition from a ...

PharmaJet presentation will highlight the results of recent immunization studies using needle-free intradermal (ID) delivery for polio immunization campaigns. Data reinforces how increased coverage, ...