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

allowing needle exchange sites to open within 1,000 feet of schools and day cares. Needle exchanges, also known as syringe access programs, provide services to drug users including clean needles ...

The number of 311 reports of discarded needles has surged since the city ended a popular needle-buyback program.

Mayor Mike Johnston wrote in a letter defending his decision that allowing an unlimited number of needle exchanges in the ...

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston vetoes council bill removing needle exchange program cap and distance requirements.

As a result of these restrictions, SOAR ceased exchanging syringes. West Virginia Health Right now operates an exchange program in the city under the restrictions. Robin Pollini is a West Virginia ...

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 ...

While these sites claim to reduce the risk of infection from reused needles, Feliz argued leaders need to do more to keep others safe, the New York Post reported. “Needle exchange programs can ...

Unlike supervised injection sites, needle exchange programs — or “syringe access” programs as they are sometimes called — do not permit the use of drugs on site but provide users with a ...

As a result of these restrictions, SOAR ceased exchanging syringes. West Virginia Health Right now operates an exchange program in the city under the restrictions. Robin Pollini is a West Virginia ...