Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, “DO NOT USE.” ...

Decades of research show syringe programs are extremely effective at preventing infectious disease among intravenous drug users and referring them to treatment. But a July executed order from Presiden ...

Syringe exchange programs, which have been proven to reduce the spread of disease and provide access to treatment for drug ...

Syringe exchange programs are struggling to stay open in some states. Some public health experts lament that these programs ...

Syringe exchange programs are struggling to stay open in some states. Some public health experts lament that these programs ...

Some local officials want to hamper needle exchange programs that public health officials say are crucial to reducing the spread of blood-borne diseases.

A decade-old harm reduction program is undergoing major changes. The Cabell-Huntington Health Department’s syringe program, also known as a needle ...

In small towns across South Carolina, the signs of the opioid crisis are written in the obituaries. Yet for all the heartbreak that addiction has brought to rural America, the most effective tool we ...

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Monte Levin, an early adopter of 'harm reduction' treatment and needle exchanges, died in July at age 79. Two needle exchanges still exist in Kitsap County, along with other facilities in Tacoma. A ...

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 ...