Sanford is instituting a one-year pause on their needle exchange program. For five years, Maine Access Points, a non-profit, ...

Fargo Cass Public Health leaders sat down with The Forum to explain how the program at the Harm Reduction Center works.

CITY HALL -- When Brian Dore's mother-in-law found a used hypodermic needle and other drug paraphernalia in a bag on the grass by her Dongan Hills home on Wednesday, she called 311. "311 told her to ...

Many residents have expressed concerns with needle litter throughout the city. Public health experts say stopping the program ...

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 ...

Ronnie Warn was bewildered when he spotted the sign on the door of the Santa Ana office where he routinely brings used needles and picks up clean ones. The Harm Reduction Institute was closed, it said ...

NEW YORK - A New York City organization is taking action to clean up drug needles and syringes littering a South Bronx park. It's a story CBS New York's Bronx reporter Shosh Bedrosian first reported ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Environmental Protection Agency says more patients these days are using injectable medicines and syringes at home. But not every patient knows where - or how - to ...

Joseph, type 1 from Rhode Island, asks: Do insulin syringes and pen needles expire? Wil@Ask D’Mine answers: Yep! They sure do, just like beer and Cool Ranch Doritos, both syringes and pen needles ...

On Friday afternoons, several dozen people line up in the narrow hallway of Prevention Point Philadelphia. The men and women, all ages, hold paper and plastic bags full of used syringes. "We obviously ...

Sharing needles with other people has risks. When you use someone else’s needle to inject drugs, steroids, or other substances, you come in contact with their blood. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ...

Sanford officials said public safety concerns as a reason for pausing the program, but health advocates warn it could fuel the spread of HIV and hepatitis C.