Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Access Point Pueblo and the Southern Colorado Harm Reduction Association continue to operate under a temporary restraining order ...

A new state report documents the drop after the longstanding service provider known as HEAL folded at the end of 2024.

Dorothy Waterhouse, program director for the syringe exchange program at the Clark County Health Department, opens a cabinet containing supplies used for the program Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2025, in ...

KNOXVILLE — A new program in Knoxville aims to reduce the spread of disease and put a dent in the overdose epidemic. The Syringe Service Program allows drug users to exchange dirty syringes used to ...

In March 2024, Oregon quashed its efforts to decriminalize illicit drugs, which would have been the first of such laws in the nation, but the debate on how to curb the growing drug overdose epidemic ...

EVANSVILLE — As local advocates work to create a syringe exchange program in Evansville, the framework for the whole system is up in the air at the state level. Indiana has a had a syringe exchange ...

The work at a syringe exchange center, like the one housed at the Damien Center on Indianapolis' east side, doesn't begin and end with handing out sterile needles. It begins with some reassurance. "We ...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, “DO NOT USE.” They contain cookers and sterile water that people use to ...