It can seem counterintuitive to provide clean syringes to individuals who inject drugs. After all, why make it easier to consume illicit substances that are increasingly resulting in overdoses? In the ...

Kim Botteicher hardly thinks of herself as a criminal. On the main floor of a former Catholic church in Bolivar, Pennsylvania, Botteicher runs a flower shop and cafe. In the former church’s basement, ...

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

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 ...

In our clinical training as local medical students, we’ve met patients whose lives could have been transformed by access to syringe service programs. The teen with HIV whose body shuts down when she ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Some organizations tasked with cleaning up downtown Portland say the number of needles they’re finding is increasing exponentially. Just in the past ’21-’22 fiscal year, ...

In 2022, physician Quang Pham approached the chief of medicine of a South Carolina hospital system with a logistical request. Could Pham’s friend, Marc Burrows, park his small white bus outside Pham’s ...

OF KEEPING THE PARKS CLEAN. THE REALITY IS, IS THAT WE’RE STILL RIGHT SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS OPIOID EPIDEMIC. AND AS IT CONTINUES, COMMUNITY EYES ARE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT WAYS TO KEEP PEOPLE ...

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 ...