The Santa Monica Coalition has filed a lawsuit against County Health Director Barbara Ferrer, the Los Angeles County Health Department and the Venice Family Clinic in connection with the Needle ...

Last month, President Biden and the rest of the G-7 leaders announced a pledge to donate 1 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in an attempt to help end the pandemic. Amidst this global vaccination ...

Pennsylvania is one of a dozen states where providing drug users with clean syringes to help prevent infection is not authorized. Now there's a push to change the state law. People who work in ...

LOWELL — Do syringe service programs, where persons who inject drugs can access sterile needles and syringes, belong near schools and parks and other areas that attract families and children? And does ...

GRAND FORKS – The Grand Forks City Council on Monday voted to keep the city's current needle exchange program, but to limit the maximum number of needles given out at any one time to 10. At its last ...

PROGRAM THAT’S AIMED AT CLEANING UP AREAS OF DOWNTOWN. ONE SWEEP AT A TIME. NEW CREWS ARE VISIBLE IN MANCHESTER’S BUSINESS DISTRICT, WITH ONE GOAL TO CLEAN THINGS UP. WE’RE ACTUALLY PROUD OF WHAT ...

Needle-sharing programs, also referred to as needle exchange or syringe services programs, are integral to public health efforts. These initiatives supply clean needles and syringes to individuals who ...

A new Australian-first study from the Burnet Institute has found that every dollar invested in Australian prison needle and syringe programs could save more than two dollars in treatment costs for ...

Harm reduction is conducted at the intersection of public health and human reality, an uncomfortable location for many people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aurora Conley (left) and Philomena Kebec (right) founded Gwayakobimaadiziwin Bad River Needle Exchange, one of the first ...