Decades of research show syringe programs are extremely effective at preventing infectious disease among intravenous drug ...

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - A strange sign of the times: Police pulled over a car at Bicknell and Woodruff, made the driver and passengers get out, and searched the car. Police found nothing. No one was ...

Some local officials want to hamper needle exchange programs that public health officials say are crucial to reducing the spread of blood-borne diseases.

Fargo Cass Public Health leaders sat down with The Forum to explain how the program at the Harm Reduction Center works.

Phoenix leaders passed a new controversial rule to restrict how volunteers can provide medical treatment and needles to the ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Environmental Protection Agency says more patients these days are using injectable medicines and syringes at home. But not every patient knows where - or how - to ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A KDKA Investigation gets action. KDKA showed the discarded syringes and needles near the Heinz Lofts on the North Side, posing a public health threat to anyone venturing near. On ...

A new report on HIV in Fiji is recommending the set-up of a needle syringe program, to provide sterile needles, as soon as ...

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 ...

LOWELL, Mass. — They hide in weeds along hiking trails and in playground grass. They wash into rivers and float downstream to land on beaches. They pepper baseball dugouts, sidewalks and streets.