Six Indiana counties operate a syringe service program, often acting as a bridge to healthcare, overdose prevention education ...

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 ...

A bill to legalize syringe services programs across the state that recently cleared a key Pennsylvania House committee in a mostly party-line vote is getting a mixed reaction from lawmakers, treatment ...

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, ...

For Gjvar Payne, harm reduction for people who use drugs — especially during the deadly opioid overdose epidemic — is fundamentally about dignity. “We’re human beings. We’re all going to make ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Some organizations tasked with cleaning up downtown Portland say the number of needles they’re finding is increasing exponentially. Just in the past ’21-’22 fiscal year, ...

In our clinical training as local medical students, we’ve met patients whose lives could have been transformed by access to syringe service programs. The teen with HIV whose body shuts down when she ...

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 ...

A bill to legalize syringe services programs across Pennsylvania that recently cleared a key state House committee in a mostly party-line vote is getting a mixed reaction from lawmakers, treatment ...