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

The state legislature is taking the wrong course in its attempt to shut down funding for syringe exchange programs. Its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dorothy Waterhouse, program director for the syringe exchange program at the Clark County Health Department, opens a cabinet ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week, they added syringe access and disposal services to their existing programming on Mondays and Tuesdays after it was ...

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

In 2023, Morgan Bryant went to her first syringe exchange. Back then, the 44-year-old eastsider was still using meth and heroin.

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 ...

Six Indiana counties operate a syringe service program, often acting as a bridge to healthcare, overdose prevention education and addiction treatment. But the programs could end in July, when the law ...

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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 ...