Health • One Utah provider closes up shop due to ’toxic’ political climate, while another faces threats of arrest from rural county sheriffs and an ultimatum from the House speaker. House Speaker Greg ...
Discarded needles can carry harmful blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis B or C or HIV Increasing drug use in the Southern Tier is suspected for the rise in improperly discarded needles The Southern ...
The last decade has seen a substantial increase in the number of injection drug users obtaining sterile needles through syringe services programs (SSPs), but greater access to these programs is ...
The discussion follows questions councilors had during the last needle exchange workshop earlier this month about how to prevent needle waste from littering city spaces.
Jason Jackson, a 37-year-old native of Zebulon, who is currently on parole, was addicted to heroin for 10 years until March 14, when he enrolled into a methadone program at Southlight Healthcare, a ...
The Harm Reduction Institute, a nonprofit based in Santa Ana, has applied to the California Department of Public Health to add home delivery and pickup of syringes to its current program. Santa Ana ...
The City of Boston handed out more than 4.5 million needles to drug users during the first four-year term of Mayor Michelle Wu, as part of her administration’s harm-reduction approach to tackling the ...
Researchers at IIT Bombay have developed the shock syringe, a painless alternative to traditional needles. This device, powered by high-energy shock waves, delivers medication without skin penetration ...