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 ...

Kim Botteicher hardly thinks of herself as a criminal. On the main floor of a former Catholic church in Bolivar, Pennsylvania, Botteicher runs a flower shop and cafe. In the former church’s basement, ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow clean syringe services to operate legally across the commonwealth. The Pa. House Judiciary Committee voted 15-10 last ...

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

Pennsylvania is one of a dozen states where providing drug users with clean syringes to help prevent infection is not authorized. Now there's a push to change the state law. People who work in ...

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

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 ...

New Hampshire lawmakers are considering a bill that would require that organizations that distribute clean syringes for needle-exchange programs do more to keep them out of public parks and busy ...