It’s about preventing avoidable illness and death and improving public safety,” Monroe County Commissioner Jody Madeira said.

Renewing and sustaining syringe exchange programs is essential to protecting public health, saving lives and maintaining the ...

Carrie O’Brien, Safer Steps Program Manager for the Damien Center is photographed in the pharmacy at the Center on Wednesday, ...

Syringes are probably among the top three concerns that I hear from the business community,” the CEO of the local chamber of ...

Syringe exchange has always been a tough political issue in Indiana. This year, lawmakers are proposing further restrictions ...

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 ...

Recently, however, the pendulum has begun to swing back nationwide. Criminal enforcement is up and bail reform and sentencing ...

Indiana’s syringe exchange programs are poised to continue for another five years as both legislative chambers have now supported extending those efforts aimed at stemming the spread of disease among ...

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 ...