Health • One Utah provider closes up shop due to ’toxic’ political climate, while another faces threats of arrest from rural county sheriffs and an ultimatum from the House speaker. House Speaker Greg ...
It can seem counterintuitive to provide clean syringes to individuals who inject drugs. After all, why make it easier to consume illicit substances that are increasingly resulting in overdoses? In the ...
Discarded needles can carry harmful blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis B or C or HIV Increasing drug use in the Southern Tier is suspected for the rise in improperly discarded needles The Southern ...
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 ...
Damon Bruder walks the trail behind his home often, and for one purpose: to pick up used drug needles. “It’s a living amends. It’s a way to give back to my community,” Bruder said. “This is dope ...
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 ...
Clean syringes prevent needle-sharing and curb blood-borne diseases like HIV. But residents want solutions to needles that ...
Kim Botteicher hardly thinks of herself as a criminal. On the main floor of a former Catholic church in Bolivar, Pennsylvania, Botteicher runs a flower shop and cafe. In the former church’s basement, ...
(TNS) — Exposed syringe needles can be hazardous to police, so a local law-enforcement agency bought a new device to destroy them. The Terrebonne Parish, La., Sheriff's Office purchased 20 machines ...