A bill to legalize distribution of clean needles and syringes to drug users was approved by a state House committee on Wednesday, with support from both Democrats and Republicans Pennsylvania is one ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – It may sound counter-intuitive – providing drug users with clean needles to help them get off drugs. But those who have been there say it works. Non-profit syringe exchange ...
Jason Jackson, a 37-year-old native of Zebulon, who is currently on parole, was addicted to heroin for 10 years until March 14, when he enrolled into a methadone program at Southlight Healthcare, a ...
Syringes are probably among the top three concerns that I hear from the business community,” the CEO of the local chamber of ...
Syringe exchanges have been legal in Utah for nearly seven years. But participants in those programs can still get in legal trouble if they “possess with intent to use” the needles given out to them.
The Harm Reduction Institute, a nonprofit based in Santa Ana, has applied to the California Department of Public Health to add home delivery and pickup of syringes to its current program. Santa Ana ...