The Harm Reduction Coalition's mobile syringe program in Santa Cruz County has resumed operations after being shut down by a ...

Needle-exchange programs, pioneered in Amsterdam in 1983, allow individuals to get sterile needles free of charge and safely dispose of dirty needles and syringes used for drug injection.

The needle exchange was the first step in Smith’s road to recovery. She has been sober for nearly 2 1/2 years and works as an applied behavior analysis therapist.

If the needle exchange is halted, she expects a rise in HIV cases to follow. Carrie Lawrence agrees. "Given the history of the Scott County outbreak, another one could happen," she says. HIV; ...

It was the first and only needle exchange in the county. It was open just two hours a week — on Saturday from 1 to 3 pm local time, when it typically saw 200 to 300 people.

LOUISVILLE -- Louisville's highly anticipated needle-exchange program will operate six days a week at the health department's downtown headquarters and reach out to participants on the street ...

Pueblo City Council banned needle exchange programs from operating in the city on May 13, but what’s been the fallout so far?. In a 5-2 vote, council approved an ordinance that effectively bans ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — To its critics here, the needle exchange was an unregulated, mismanaged nightmare — a “mini-mall for junkies and drug dealers” in the words of Danny Jones, the city’s ...

Some needle exchange programs offer clean smoking pipes, testing strips and overdose reversal drugs. Sites also allow ...

A city-sponsored needle exchange program outside a children’s library in the Bronx is drawing heat from one Big Apple pol — and a slew of local residents taking a jab at the “unacceptable ...

New Jersey’s needle-exchange law, adopted in 2006, gives localities veto power over syringe sites; programs similar to Oasis operate in Asbury Park, Camden, Jersey City, Newark, Paterson and ...