Needle exchange sites offer a place for drug users to dispose of used needles, pick up clean ones, and learn about mental health and addiction treatment options. Drugs aren’t legally allowed to ...

An expansion of a Denver law from the late nineties will allow for unlimited needle exchange sites across the city and remove a previously required restraint on its proximity to schools and daycares.

KDKA Investigates: Emails show Pittsburgh has failed to comply with regulations for needle exchanges 03:47. PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Discarded used syringes are a public health hazard, but a KDKA ...

In 2018, such opposition shut down Orange County’s only needle exchange. The Harm Reduction Institute emerged as a successor but faced similar resistance and was forced to close in January 2022.

Denver City Council is voting on an expanded needle exchange program, which could lift restrictions on where sites could go. Greenpeace says a pipeline company's lawsuit threatens the organization ...

For every dollar invested in Canada’s prison needle-exchange programs, an estimated $2 is saved in hepatitis C and injection-related infection treatment costs, according to a new study in the ...

Starting in two weeks, the syringe services program in Sanford will have to shift to one-to-one exchange rate, meaning people can receive one clean needle for every used needle they bring in ...

When Mike Pence, a Republican, was governor of Indiana, he authorized a needle exchange in 2015 amid an H.I.V. outbreak among drug users in a rural area of the state, ...

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston late on Tuesday vetoed a proposal to remove the cap and distance requirements on the city’s needle exchange program. The City Council may still override his veto if ...

DENVER — Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has vetoed a measure to lift restrictions on syringe exchange sites, a day after it was approved by city council. The ordinance, which passed 8-5 on Monday ...

T he city of Lewiston will consider a one-to-one needle exchange ordinance at Tuesday's city council meeting.These changes would affect the city's two existing syringe services programs, the ...

Rockford City Administrator Todd Cagnoni told committee members that the Winnebago County Health Department already operates needle exchange services at three locations in the city. Last year, the ...