KNOXVILLE — A new program in Knoxville aims to reduce the spread of disease and put a dent in the overdose epidemic. The Syringe Service Program allows drug users to exchange dirty syringes used to ...

Evergreen Health Services’ syringe-exchange program has started in Jamestown. Kimberly Lombard, Evergreen Health Services senior director of grants management and quality, said the program stared in ...

Auburn councilors heard from state officials about syringe safety programs during their meeting Monday as the council looks into creating an ordinance to govern how they might operate in the city.

In March 2024, Oregon quashed its efforts to decriminalize illicit drugs, which would have been the first of such laws in the nation, but the debate on how to curb the growing drug overdose epidemic ...

Portland-based medical provider Outside In faces a serious cut in their revolutionary syringe exchange program, thanks to a drop in federal funding. The ever-rocky annual funding of this 23-year-old ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill criticized the state’s syringe exchange program during a recent podcast interview, arguing that the initiative fails to curb drug overdoses ...