A Melbourne council is chasing the Victorian government for millions of ratepayer dollars it spent to clean up syringes around the city's only safe injection site. The City of Yarra says it has spent ...
A year after Burlington City Council asked for a report on syringe litter, city leaders are ready to talk about what comes next. Local leaders said used syringes continue to show up in Burlington ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It can seem counterintuitive to provide clean syringes to individuals who inject drugs. After all, why make it easier to consume ...
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 ...
A sharps container for drug needles hangs on a tree in Tent City behind the Hope House in Bangor. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN The BDN Editorial Board operates independently from the newsroom, ...
A sea of red shirts and decorated banners swarmed outside of the Legislature on April 13 as the people rallied for lawmakers to pass a bill that would decriminalize certain uses of syringes. House ...
With complaints about syringe litter on the rise, the New York City Council is considering a new way to keep needles off of sidewalks and out of parks: Paying drug users to turn them in. Similar to a ...
A volunteer group called BTV Clean Up Crew has been collecting trash and littered syringes in Burlington since May. Organizers report a decrease in the number of syringes found during clean-ups, ...
PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow clean syringe services to operate legally across the commonwealth. The Pa. House Judiciary Committee voted 15-10 last ...
In 2022, physician Quang Pham approached the chief of medicine of a South Carolina hospital system with a logistical request. Could Pham’s friend, Marc Burrows, park his small white bus outside Pham’s ...
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 ...