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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Syringe exchange programs are struggling to stay open in some states. Some public health experts lament that these programs have ...

Syringe exchange has always been a tough political issue in Indiana. This year, lawmakers are proposing further restrictions on the state's program.

IN 30 YEARS, THE CITY HAS DISTRIBUTED MORE THAN. 17.6 MILLION SYRINGES, AND WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE WHO ARE STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION. WHILE HONORING MISUSERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES. CITY ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dorothy Waterhouse, program director for the syringe exchange program at the Clark County Health Department, opens a cabinet ...

Dorothy Waterhouse, program director for the syringe exchange program at the Clark County Health Department, opens a cabinet containing supplies used for the program Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2025, in ...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, “DO NOT USE.” They contain cookers and sterile water that people use to ...