As Indiana officials struggled to contain an outbreak of HIV among people who injected drugs, then-Gov. Mike Pence reluctantly followed the urgings of public health officials and cleared the way for ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 12—The California Department of Public Health recently proposed changes involving its Syringe Exchange Program (SEP) that ...
Hawaiʻi's statewide syringe exchange program has seen a decrease in exchanges due to changing patterns of substance use, but ...
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. – Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, “DO NOT USE.” They contain cookers and sterile water that people use to shoot ...
INDIANAPOLIS -- A study by researchers investigating the 2015 HIV outbreak in Scott County, Indiana, found that a syringe services program is an important tool to control and prevent HIV outbreaks ...
A surge in illegal peptides is fuelling unprecedented demand for sterile injecting equipment, placing immense pressure on decades-old needle and syringe programs originally designed to combat the rise ...
State law protecting syringe exchange programs expires July 1, forcing groups to stop distribution or face jail.
KNOXVILLE — A new program in Knoxville aims to reduce the spread of disease and put a dent in the overdose epidemic. The Syringe Service Program allows drug users to exchange dirty syringes used to ...
The nonprofit Vermont CARES is expanding its services to Burlington next month, and will begin running the city's syringe ...
KNOXVILLE — A new program in Knoxville aims to reduce the spread of disease and put a dent in the overdose epidemic. The Syringe Service Program allows drug users to exchange dirty syringes used to ...