Four Texas elementary school students are being tested for HIV and other blood-borne diseases after a student found a heroin needle at recess and poked herself and three other students. The student at ...

Feb. 24—Residents warned that converting the Masonic Temple building in Goffstown into a dozen apartments would create a "college dorm," attract low-income residents overcrowding the small units and ...

CHESTERTON — A 27-year-old Michigan City woman was arrested Monday on two felony drug-related charges after police said they discovered a hypodermic needle with heroin hidden inside her underwear.

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 ...

Avon, N.Y. (WHAM) - A man from Avon was arrested Friday after deputies say they found him with heroin and a needle in his car. According to Livingston County Sheriff's deputies, they were called to ...

FURIOUS residents in the Calton area have said new drug bins in the area 'normalise' needles on their streets. They met at a public meeting to share their continued fears over the 'increase in ...

CONNERSVILLE, Ind. (AP) Officials in an eastern Indiana county that had dozens of heroin overdoses last fall are the latest to seek approval for a needle-exchange program aimed at helping curtail ...

A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examined the connection between Baltimore City's needle exchange program and drug treatment programs. Individuals who ...

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — As she pressed down on the plunger of an empty syringe, a drop of blood oozed from the crooked tip of its needle — a test, Denise Brown said, that she uses on unpackaged syringes ...

A small bag of heroin led to a big drug bust in a Massachusetts on Wednesday — and to an attack that stuck a deputy with a used and potentially infectious needle, police said. Police in Yarmouth, ...

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. — As of Jan. 1, the drug and needle collection bins in the front lobby of the Cheektowaga Police Department are collecting more dust than hazardous items. “Very shortly the bins are ...