FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Heated messages of disapproval, disgust, and anger from several Fresno city leaders about Fresno County bringing a needle exchange program to Fulton Street in Downtown ...

SANTA CRUZ — For more than 30 years, public health officials and nonprofits in California have provided clean hypodermic needles to people who use them to inject drugs. For nearly that entire time, ...

Opioid overdose deaths in Orange County are rising sharply, with annual deaths nearly tripling in the four years ending in 2021. It is no coincidence that for much of that time, and again today, ...

Injection drug use across the United States is increasing as the misuse of prescription and synthetic opioids rages on. Many people who misuse drugs choose to inject because it delivers a faster, more ...

As Pueblo City Council debates whether to ban syringe access programs in the city, the agencies that operate them in Pueblo are coming forward to defend them. The Southern Colorado Harm Reduction ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) -- The California Department of Public Health has approved the mobile Orange County Needle Exchange program to operate in Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Orange and Santa Ana. The program ...

It's often said that change is the only constant. One of the most sobering changes confronting Fargo-Moorhead is the explosive growth of the opioid epidemic. Even a few years ago, who would have ...

ROSEVILLE -- Controversial clean drug needle exchange programs are once again a topic of debate in Placer County. Wednesday night, the city of Roseville took center stage. The agenda item comes on the ...

More than a quarter of AIDS cases in the U.S. among people age 13 or older are directly linked to injection drug use. 3 When mother-to-child HIV transmission is taken into account, roughly 35 percent ...

As Pennsylvania remains a leader in the nation’s still-worsening overdose crisis and the Lehigh Valley sees fresh evidence of its severity, a pair of lawmakers want to legalize needle-exchange ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Update: The Denver City Council passed the proposal loosening needle exchange rules Monday night on an 8-5 vote. Mayor Mike Johnston vetoed it Tuesday ...