The increase in recreational drug use has led city officials to act on ensuring the proper disposal of syringes. Officials at Evergreen Health Services, located at 408 W. Fifth St., Jamestown, are ...

Last week, Congress took an important step in the fight against HIV/AIDS with a historic vote on syringe exchange programs. On July 25, the House voted to remove the ban on providing federal funding ...

Auburn councilors heard from state officials about syringe safety programs during their meeting Monday as the council looks into creating an ordinance to govern how they might operate in the city.

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 ...

In March 2024, Oregon quashed its efforts to decriminalize illicit drugs, which would have been the first of such laws in the nation, but the debate on how to curb the growing drug overdose epidemic ...

Bangor’s public health and community services department is moving forward with a plan to offer sterile syringe delivery for clients of the city’s HIV case management program. A City Council committee ...

As we now know, addiction is not a choice, but a medical condition and living with it can be tragic in itself. Adding in the risk of blood-borne infections, such as HIV and hepatitis B/C (acquired by ...