The city of Portland distributed more than 1 million needles for the first time in 2025 and collected 86% of them, its ...

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 ...

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

Syringe exchange programs in Indiana, which provide clean needles and naloxone to reduce the spread of infections and ...

NEW YORK - A New York City organization is taking action to clean up drug needles and syringes littering a South Bronx park. It's a story CBS New York's Bronx reporter Shosh Bedrosian first reported ...

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

EVERETT — Used syringes have littered parks, playgrounds and sidewalks as heroin abuse has surged. Now, free kits are available from the Snohomish Health District with the necessary supplies so people ...

Joseph, type 1 from Rhode Island, asks: Do insulin syringes and pen needles expire? Wil@Ask D’Mine answers: Yep! They sure do, just like beer and Cool Ranch Doritos, both syringes and pen needles ...

Clients and volunteers in a parking lot in Cedar Rapids gather around boxes of supplies that include an overdose reversal drug, books about safe injection practices, fentanyl test strips, housing ...

NEW ORLEANS — Because of the opioid epidemic, the city is installing special bins in public places in hopes of getting used syringes and needles off of the streets. As the number of people who are ...

Once repellent to conservative politicians, needle exchanges are now being endorsed and legalized in Republican-controlled states. At least four legislatures have considered bills to allow hypodermic ...