Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness reports seeing an increase in need for their syringe-exchange program after the Maine CDC ...

A Bronx council member wants to force the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to pick up used drug needles that ...

First, he worried it would allow for an unlimited number of needle exchange programs. Second ... argue that syringe exchange sites improve public safety. “These are countless thousands of ...

The concept of needle exchanges is understandably ... Instead of working to assure that any syringe program improves public safety, city officials dug in their heels and are celebrating their ...

BANGOR, Maine — A prominent syringe exchange program in Bangor ... surge in people going to other needle exchange services in the region. "We have seen a remarkable increase," Lisa Sockabasin, the ...

Regulating “harm reduction” programs, including placing limits on needle exchange programs and banning ... drug use and distribution, and other public safety issues. Last month, Gov.

We’re not only doing substance abuse prevention but all kinds of other things that promote ... B Exchange, is looking into setting up its own harm reduction program.For them, she said, a needle ...

New York City Councilmember Oswald Feliz introduced legislation Thursday to require the city to deal with discarded needles in areas near needle exchange sites.

Locals near a needle-exchange site in a Bronx park are cheering a councilman’s proposal to require city health workers to collect hundreds of discarded syringes littering the ground. Oswald ...