UTAH’S SYRINGE EXCHANGES<br>Utah has had three syringe exchanges that distributed a preliminary total of 187,783 syringes and collected 70,528 between Dec. 1, 2016, and June 30 — most of them ...

More than 600 individuals and organizations from across Ontario have signed a letter calling on the province to allow the ...

It did away with mobile exchanges and stopped allowing drug users to get needles without turning in an equal number of used ones, said Jason Hoppin, a spokesman for the Santa Cruz County.

A new report finds the use of syringe or needle exchanges has contributed to significant drops in the rates of HIV among African-American and Latino drug users.

‘It's Raining Needles': Drug Crisis Creates Syringe Pollution Threat One 6-year-old girl in California mistook a discarded syringe for a thermometer and put it in her mouth; she was unharmed ...

Workers at “needle exchange” spots across the city may be forced to collect used drug syringes that end up as litter under a new bill unveiled Thursday. Council member Oswald Feliz’s new ...

TRENTON — A New Jersey legislative committee is considering a law that would allow sales of syringes and needles to intravenous drug users at pharmacies. Currently, the needles are only ...

This Bronx organization is cleaning up a local park one syringe at a time 02:43. NEW YORK - A New York City organization is taking action to clean up drug needles and syringes littering a South ...

Starbucks is installing needle-disposal boxes in some bathrooms, as well as exploring other solutions to workers' concerns regarding improperly disposed-of syringes and related health risks. More ...

A major 2017 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said syringe services programs can help people who use drugs find treatment options, access the opioid ...

Fourteen people were arrested in France after 145 people reported being stabbed with a mysterious syringe containing an unknown substance at a Saturday music festival. The French Interior Ministry ...

A syringe disposal box for drug users to safely discard used needles in Richman Echo Park. Stephen Yang Concerned residents say it’s hard to walk through the park without seeing needles everywhere.