The City of Boston handed out more than 4.5 million needles to drug users during the first four-year term of Mayor Michelle Wu, as part of her administration’s harm-reduction approach to tackling the ...

A city report found that over 427,000 syringes distributed by a safe recovery program in 2024 were unaccounted for. When City Council asked for a report on discarded syringes last fall, the goal was ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Lavender Timmons popped the trunk of her weather ...

The soda giant had a public relations nightmare on its hands thanks to hundred of claims of syringes being found inside cans. The next morning, Triplett tried peering inside the can to see if he could ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — A new Illinois law will allow people to have easier access to sterile hypodermic needles and syringes. The law will require pharmacies to sell sterile syringes and needles ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Neighbors on North Clinton Avenue have expressed frustration with Trillium Health and other organizations, accusing them of enabling drug use in their community by distributing clean ...

Employees of the technology transfer center ANAXAM and researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI used the unique analytical methods available at PSI to look inside pre-filled syringes. They ...

Mark Stoové has received funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Victorian Department of Health, and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aging. He has also received ...

Workers at “needle exchange” spots across the city may be forced to collect used drug syringes that end up as litter under a new bill unveiled Thursday. Council member Oswald Feliz’s new bill would ...

The Burlington needle exchange program will undergo a study in the coming months, addressing the growing problem of syringes littered on city streets in conjunction with the growing drug crisis.