Decades of research show syringe programs are extremely effective at preventing infectious disease among intravenous drug ...

It’s early evening in mid-December when a middle aged man walks up to the pharmacy counter at a Walgreens in Asheville. He asks to buy a bag of syringes. The pharmacy technician walks to grab them ...

Kim Botteicher works in the basement of a Bolivar, Pa. church. She provides syringe services as part of her charitable work. In the basement of a former Catholic church, in a tiny Westmoreland County ...

Problem: ISMP has repeatedly stressed the importance of never using parenteral syringes to prepare or administer small volumes of oral/enteral products; instead, an oral syringe should always be used.

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 ...

Kim Botteicher works in the basement of a Bolivar church. She provides syringe services as part of her charitable work. Credit: Nate Smallwood for Spotlight PA This article is part of The State of ...

FOR many women the road to motherhood can be emotionally challenging and incredibly expensive. But one determined mum, Taylor Beales, took matters into her own hands to achieve her dream of starting a ...

Subcutaneous (subQ or SQ) injections are shots given in the fatty tissue layer (subcutaneous fat) under your skin. Your skin has many layers, and the subcutaneous layer is beneath the epidermis and ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – After a large pile of an estimated 500 syringes was found on a pedestrian bridge that is frequented by Albuquerque students, KRQE News 13 began looking into how syringes end ...

Clark County Health Officer Dr. Eric Yazel says exchanges prevent people from sharing needles and spreading disease, ...