Syringe exchange has always been a tough political issue in Indiana. This year, lawmakers are proposing further restrictions ...
Syringes are probably among the top three concerns that I hear from the business community,” the CEO of the local chamber of ...
Lawmakers have voted to extend the program, but with new restrictions some health professionals say could limit its effectiveness.
As Indiana officials struggled to contain an outbreak of HIV among people who injected drugs, then-Gov. Mike Pence reluctantly followed the urgings of public health officials and cleared the way for ...
Many stockmen use multi-dose syringes when vaccinating cattle, and most of these are pistol-grip action to make it easier to administer the vaccine. Heidi Carroll, South Dakota State University ...
Two months ago, while Diante Edwards was walking his two dogs, near the corner of South Arlington Street and James Street in Pigtown, a needle stuck his foot through his shoe. “I had to go to the ...
“No exposed flesh,” says Mayia Ogbebor, the syringe-disposal program manager for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, which runs a 12-person, 12-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week needle-pickup crew funded by ...
Editor's note: This is the third story in the News Tribune's series on overdoses. It's an instrument that's supposed to deliver so much pleasure but ends up inflicting so much pain. "I observed (her) ...