The Burlington needle exchange program will undergo a study in the coming months, addressing the growing problem of syringes littered on city streets in conjunction with the growing drug crisis.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 13—Portland leaders are weighing how best to address increasing reports of discarded needles along city streets and parks, ...

A needle exchange program in Sanford, Maine, is pausing operations for one year due to public health and safety concerns. The agreement is a compromise between the city, the nonprofit Maine Access ...

Pueblo City Council’s decision this week to ban syringe distribution to injection-drug users in its city limits prompted an El Paso County commissioner to check into the issue. What Commissioner ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho lawmakers drew a hardline Wednesday, a vote in the Idaho Senate sends House Bill 617 to Governor Little’s desk. The pending law would simply repeal the Syringe and Needle Exchange ...

Rockford officials are poised to deny a special use permit that would allow a needle exchange to operate at a downtown substance abuse resource center. After months of discussion, a City Council ...

For Indiana’s syringe exchange programs to survive, they might face new restrictions that public health advocates say will undercut efforts to help intravenous drug abusers kick their addictions. The ...

Scott County, Ind., had what's been called rural America's worst HIV outbreak in 2015. The cause was IV drug abuse, and the county fought it by accepting a needle exchange program. Now, with HIV cases ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Six Indiana counties now have programs providing sterile needles, disease testing and offers of addiction counseling to addicts.