The country is facing a drug overdose crisis, and those impacts are felt in the Pacific Northwest as well. The man at the center of a controversial independent needle exchange program in North Bend ...

Indiana’s syringe exchange programs are poised to continue for another five years as both legislative chambers have now supported extending those efforts aimed at stemming the spread of disease among ...

The city of Portland distributed more than 1 million needles for the first time in 2025 and collected 86% of them, its highest rate in four years. The high rate was attributable largely to a buyback ...

The Indiana House added several restrictions to the state's syringe exchange programs, but the bill's authors are just ...

For Indiana’s syringe exchange programs to survive, they might face new restrictions that public health advocates say will undercut efforts to help intravenous drug abusers kick their addictions. The ...

Prisons should have needle and syringe programmes (NSPs), opioid substitution therapy (OST) and other preventive measures in place to prevent HIV transmission between inmates. These are the ...

A recently published study from Karolinska Institutet shows that mortality among people who inject drugs enrolled in the Stockholm needle and syringe program declined over a 10-year period, with a ...

Syringe exchange has always been a tough political issue in Indiana. This year, lawmakers are proposing further restrictions ...

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

Researchers and advocates are calling for needle exchange programs to be introduced in prisons to help combat the risks of ...

Ronnie Warn was bewildered when he spotted the sign on the door of the Santa Ana office where he routinely brings used needles and picks up clean ones. The Harm Reduction Institute was closed, it said ...

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