For another year, lawmakers in the state House of Delegates are attempting to ban syringe service programs across West Virginia. Members of the House Subcommittee on Public Health on Wednesday ...

As Indiana officials struggled to contain an outbreak of HIV among people who injected drugs, then-Gov. Mike Pence reluctantly followed the urgings of public health officials and cleared the way for ...

Six Indiana counties operate a syringe service program, often acting as a bridge to healthcare, overdose prevention education and addiction treatment. But the programs could end in July, when the law ...

The Burlington social services center says it is working to transition the service to other local providers, though no successor has been named yet.

It can seem counterintuitive to provide clean syringes to individuals who inject drugs. After all, why make it easier to consume illicit substances that are increasingly resulting in overdoses? In the ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow clean syringe services to operate legally across the commonwealth. The Pa. House Judiciary Committee voted 15-10 last ...

Kim Botteicher hardly thinks of herself as a criminal. On the main floor of a former Catholic church in Bolivar, Pennsylvania, Botteicher runs a flower shop and cafe. In the former church’s basement, ...

It’s about preventing avoidable illness and death and improving public safety,” Monroe County Commissioner Jody Madeira said.

Locals near a needle exchange site in a Bronx park are cheering a councilman’s proposal to require city health workers to ...

Syringes are probably among the top three concerns that I hear from the business community,” the CEO of the local chamber of ...