A decade after a historic HIV outbreak in Indiana, syringe programs that helped contain the crisis are at risk of ...

The opioid crisis has grown too big for anyone to ignore, on the left or the right, as the devastation unfolds on the nation’s streets every day: Drug users are overdosing in public bathrooms, on the ...

Father Douglas McKay, a Philadelphia priest who has spent 50 years ministering to those in addiction, says that Philadelphia’s plans to create the first U.S. safe injection site are “a form of ...

When we think about threats to our health, we usually think of heart disease, cancer, or diabetes. Rarely does the average person think of hepatitis. And yet, viral hepatitis, especially hepatitis B ...

Three years after Utah lawmakers legalized syringe exchange programs to curtail the spread of disease, community groups have taken more than half-a-million dirty needles off the street and handed out ...

A federal judge has paved the way for a facility to open in Philadelphia that would allow and supervise the injection of illegal drugs, an arrangement that would be the first of its kind in the United ...

Apellis Pharmaceuticals said Tuesday that it had identified “internal structural variations” in a type of needle used by doctors to prepare syringes of its eye disease drug Syfovre as a possible cause ...

Safe injection sites for opioid users may soon be permitted in three California cities after the state’s senate passed a bill authorising their use for a pilot programme. The new law would allow the ...

An error has occurred. Please try again. With a The Portland Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do not have any active ...