Six Indiana counties operate a syringe service program, often acting as a bridge to healthcare, overdose prevention education and addiction treatment. But the programs could end in July, when the law ...
Syringes are probably among the top three concerns that I hear from the business community,” the CEO of the local chamber of ...
For another year, lawmakers in the state House of Delegates are attempting to ban syringe service programs across West Virginia. Members of the House Subcommittee on Public Health on Wednesday ...
GOOD EVENING. I’M VICKI DORTCH AND I’M RICK BAN, WHOSE CITY LEADERS ARE MAKING IT EASIER TO SAFELY DISPOSE OF USED SYRINGES BY ADDING DROP BOXES IN THREE CITY PARKS. THE GOAL IS TO REDUCE THE SPREAD ...
It’s about preventing avoidable illness and death and improving public safety,” Monroe County Commissioner Jody Madeira said.
Kim Botteicher works in the basement of a Bolivar, Pa. church. She provides syringe services as part of her charitable work. In the basement of a former Catholic church, in a tiny Westmoreland County ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON, DC — Two innovations — a syringe that auto-disables so it can't be reused and a blood test that allows extensive results from a tiny sample — are providing low-cost answers to some of the ...