A controversial needle-exchange program booted from south Camden two years ago may be returning to the city. Camden’s city council this week approved the return of the needle exchange at a new ...

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, ...

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Syringe exchange programs have been a hot-button topic in Pueblo politics for over a year, and a newly elected city councilor is pushing to ban them within city limits. An ordinance prohibiting needle ...

For 11 years, businessman Robert E. Field has quietly made sure intravenous drug users in Lancaster had free access to sterile needles. Field in 1998 started a needle-exchange program that today is ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO — As the nation continues to grapple with an opioid crisis, Bexar County commissioners on Tuesday moved to approve $80,000 in taxpayer money to start a needle exchange pilot program. Many ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Kansas City Care Clinic wants to make their needle exchange program public. Clinic executives are encouraged that legislation being considered in Jefferson City would make their ...

Orange County’s first and only needle-exchange program has shut down after Santa Ana city officials denied its permit application, sparking concerns from public health advocates. City officials say ...

Individual Florida counties can now authorize needle exchanges. Florida counties can now authorize needle exchanges, after a bill aimed at reducing HIV and hepatitis C was signed into law by Governor ...

Five years ago, to curb the worst HIV outbreak in the U.S., rural Scott County Indiana approved a needle exchange so drug abusers had access to clean needles. Now, it may close the exchange. Scott ...