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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Harm Reduction Institute, a nonprofit based in Santa Ana, has applied to the California Department of Public Health to add home delivery and pickup of syringes to its current program. Santa Ana ...