A decade after a historic HIV outbreak in Indiana, syringe programs that helped contain the crisis are at risk of ...
Despite Indian Country bearing some of the highest fatality rates of the overdose crisis, there is a woefully insufficient ...
SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) -- Santa Ana Mayor Valerie Amezcua has serious concerns about the California Department of Public Health's decision to approve an application to provide syringe delivery and ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (NEXSTAR) – Few bills on Tennessee’s Capitol Hill are presented as “life savers,” but that’s exactly what State Senator Steve Dickerson did to successfully pass his bill to combat IV ...
The council removed all references to a 1-to-1 syringe exchange, a piece of the ordinance that had received pushback from ...
Congress needs to immediately lift the ban on federal funding for needle exchange programs to counter the threat of HIV outbreaks among injection drug users like the one that has seen an alarming ...
ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) -- The California Department of Public Health has approved the mobile Orange County Needle Exchange program to operate in Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Orange and Santa Ana. The program ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s health commissioner approved a one-year needle-exchange program Thursday for a rural county at the center of the state’s largest HIV outbreak, an epidemic that’s being ...
Nearly six months after syringe services programs, known as needle exchanges, became legal in Virginia in an effort to curb surging rates of hepatitis C, the Department of Health has yet to receive a ...
ATLANTIC CITY — A brick building sits sandwiched between a church and tall apartment buildings on South Tennessee Avenue. Inside, men and women of all ages sit in plastic chairs and wait for their ...
I’M MONTY FLEMMING, WMUR NEWS NINE. MANCHESTER IS NOW THE FIRST MUNICIPALITY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE TO REGULATE NEEDLE EXCHANGE PROGRAMS. STARTING TODAY, SYRINGE SERVICE PROGRAMS MUST REGISTER WITH THE CITY ...
A Watertown City Council member is standing by his criticism of needle exchange programs and bail reform after railing about drug-related crime in the city.