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 ...

Access Point Pueblo and the Southern Colorado Harm Reduction Association continue to operate under a temporary restraining order while the legality of a citywide ban on syringe exchange programs is ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Syringe exchange programs are struggling to stay open in some states. Some public health experts lament that these programs have ...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — 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 shoot ...

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 ...

Some member of congress want to eliminate federal funding for needle exchange programs that have been proven to reduce HIV transmission. Share ...