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 ...

Last month, President Biden and the rest of the G-7 leaders announced a pledge to donate 1 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in an attempt to help end the pandemic. Amidst this global vaccination ...

Pennsylvania is one of a dozen states where providing drug users with clean syringes to help prevent infection is not authorized. Now there's a push to change the state law. People who work in ...

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 ...

A discarded needle is seen March 27 in an alleyway in Lewiston. (Andree Kehn/Staff Photographer) More than half a dozen residents spoke out Monday against allowing a syringe exchange program to ...

GRAND FORKS – The Grand Forks City Council on Monday voted to keep the city's current needle exchange program, but to limit the maximum number of needles given out at any one time to 10. At its last ...

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 new Australian-first study from the Burnet Institute has found that every dollar invested in Australian prison needle and syringe programs could save more than two dollars in treatment costs for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aurora Conley (left) and Philomena Kebec (right) founded Gwayakobimaadiziwin Bad River Needle Exchange, one of the first ...

Needle and syringe programs are a proven public health intervention that provide free, sterile injecting equipment to people who use drugs. By reducing needle sharing, these programs help prevent the ...