Rep. Jim Struzzi (R, Indiana) is the bill's co-sponsor. He addressed the state House Judiciary Committee before a vote on HB 1245. The state House Judiciary Committee Wednesday advanced a bill that ...

More than 100 people regularly use the syringe exchange at the Alaskan Aids Assistance Association (Four A’s) office in downtown Juneau, but due to the lack of funding, the program could fold at the ...

A citizen push to overturn Pueblo’s recent ban on syringe exchanges has failed. Advocates in Pueblo gathering signatures for a ballot referendum to overturn the ban said they were abandoning the ...

As Indiana officials struggled to contain an outbreak of HIV among people who injected drugs, then-Gov. Mike Pence reluctantly followed the urgings of public health officials and cleared the way for ...

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 ...

Evergreen Health Services’ syringe-exchange program has started in Jamestown. Kimberly Lombard, Evergreen Health Services senior director of grants management and quality, said the program stared in ...

A bill to legalize syringe services programs across Pennsylvania that recently cleared a key state House committee in a mostly party-line vote is getting a mixed reaction from lawmakers, treatment ...

A city report found that over 427,000 syringes distributed by a safe recovery program in 2024 were unaccounted for. When City Council asked for a report on discarded syringes last fall, the goal was ...

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For Gjvar Payne, harm reduction for people who use drugs — especially during the deadly opioid overdose epidemic — is fundamentally about dignity. “We’re human beings. We’re all going to make ...