Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NYC workers may be forced to clean up drug needles next to syringe ‘exchange’ spots thanks to new bill Workers at “needle exchange ...

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 ...

Syringes are probably among the top three concerns that I hear from the business community,” the CEO of the local chamber of ...

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 ...

Discusses Integrated Prefillable Syringe Systems to Streamline Drug Development and Reduce Complexity February ...

For another year, lawmakers in the state House of Delegates are attempting to ban syringe service programs across West Virginia. Members of the House Subcommittee on Public Health on Wednesday ...

Syringe exchange among the unhoused population has been a growing public health concern nationally since the 1980s. However, this issue becomes even more pressing in Los Angeles, where the nation’s ...

But the prison officers’ union, jail authorities, and the opposition slammed the Australian Medical Association (AMA) idea as “dangerous”, with the union saying jail is for rehabilitation not drug ...

In the fight against drug overdoses and bloodborne diseases, some Republican and Democratic state lawmakers want to allow groups to hand out medical syringes to drug users in Pennsylvania. Groups such ...

"Let's rethink glass," says specialty glass and glass ceramics developer Schott (Elmsford, NY) on its website. Sometimes, that revisionist thinking leads to plastics. At Interphex 2015, which was held ...