Between October 2024 and September 2025, Milan Puskar Health Right’s harm reduction program, Living in Good Health Together, distributed 235,435 syringes. Over that same stretch, the program collected ...

Opioid overdose deaths in Orange County are rising sharply, with annual deaths nearly tripling in the four years ending in 2021. It is no coincidence that for much of that time, and again today, ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Discarded used syringes are a public health hazard, but a KDKA investigation has found that for the past two years, the city failed to comply with health department regulations.

One of the reasons for implementing stricter needle programs is to limit the number of used needles lying on the streets in ...

ROSEVILLE -- Controversial clean drug needle exchange programs are once again a topic of debate in Placer County. Wednesday night, the city of Roseville took center stage. The agenda item comes on the ...

INDIANAPOLIS - A southern Indiana HIV epidemic has spurred lawmakers to consider a controversial needle exchange program in counties that might have high intravenous drug use. The House inserted ...

The first block of South Tennessee Avenue in Atlantic City where the Oasis needle exchange is located also hosts a hotel, a church, and a handful of businesses. (EmmaLee/WHYY) The Atlantic City ...

The proposals, including greater access to overdose-reversing drugs and ways to test for the presence of deadly opioid fentanyl, stem from recommendations made this year by a high-level commission ...

A proposed amendment to a city ordinance covering syringe service programs in Manchester that would establish a strict 1-to-1 needle exchange rule is being sent to a committee to address ...

The new proposal would require syringe service programs, or SSPs, to provide sterile syringes only if individuals return the ...

SANTA CRUZ — For more than 30 years, public health officials and nonprofits in California have provided clean hypodermic needles to people who use them to inject drugs. For nearly that entire time, ...

In 2015, Indiana's rural Scott County found itself in the national spotlight when intravenous drug use and sharing needles led to an outbreak of HIV. Mike Pence, who was Indiana's governor at the time ...