New Jersey was one of the last states to make it legal in 2012 for adults to buy syringes over the counter, a move to increase access to clean needles and discourage drug users from sharing or reusing ...

Injection drug use across the United States is increasing as the misuse of prescription and synthetic opioids rages on. Many people who misuse drugs choose to inject because it delivers a faster, more ...

In Fort Wayne, drug addicts can walk up to a low-slung, buff-brick building about two miles south of downtown on Tuesday afternoons and pick up 30 clean syringes. Every time they come back, they can ...

Dressed in forest-green scrubs, Dr. Hansel Tookes spends his lunch break searching for used syringes around an Overtown overpass. Tookes’ eyes scan the weeds beside the sidewalk. He glosses over ...

People can do their best to protect themselves from things like hepatitis and HIV by being responsible and aware, but when doctors reuse syringes, all efforts can fall by the wayside. Situations like ...

One of the things that many people hate most about getting vaccinations and taking certain types of medication is needles. Any medication that has to be delivered intramuscular typically requires a ...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on Monday signed into law a bill (SB 1159) to create a five-year pilot program allowing pharmacies to sell as many as 10 syringes to adults without a prescription, which ...

This guest column was written by Kassandra Botts of Bloomington. In response to the article on the city’s partnership with the health department to install syringe disposal units in select Bloomington ...