Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a package of bills that aim to combat substance-use disorders, including one that will bring medication assisted treatment to prisons and jails across the state and another to ...

The broken needle of a syringe was found inside the body of a three-year-old boy in the Madhapur community health centre (CHC) in the district on Thursday. Representational Image ANGUL: The broken ...

Elected officials hear some prickly criticism over syringe litter, but they are expected to stand behind San Francisco’s needle exchange program Tuesday by supporting a seven-year contract extension.

The state plans to increase the number of sites where drug addicts can score clean needles as the opioid crisis rages, according to new “emergency” regulations approved by the Cuomo administration.

In some places, the order is galvanizing support for syringe exchange programs, which decades of research show are extremely ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — The number of syringes exchanged under a Multnomah County-funded program jumped to 5.5 million last year, up from 2016’s record of nearly 4 million. Meanwhile, the ...

Carroll County State’s Attorney Haven Shoemaker has sent a letter to the county’s health officer, objecting to the county’s participation in a state program that includes the collection and ...

They hide in weeds along hiking trails and in playground grass. They wash into rivers and float downstream to land on beaches. They pepper baseball dugouts, sidewalks and streets. Syringes left by ...

Residents and business owners have been complaining about syringes littering the streets of some Boston neighborhoods for years. Perhaps nowhere more so than the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue ...

To reduce the expenses associated with pharmaceutical products , the Federal Government has held a meeting with needles and syringes manufacturers in Nigeria. The meeting was presided over by the ...