PHOENIX — It is a new law that is expected to save lives. In what some consider a controversial move, the state of Arizona has legalized syringe or needle exchange programs, which means those addicted ...

Ted Miles begins most days behind Burlington’s derelict Memorial Auditorium, wielding a steel trash grabber and a grimy plastic container that he fills with used syringes. He then heads north, toward ...

Syringe exchanges have been legal in Utah for nearly seven years. But participants in those programs can still get in legal trouble if they “possess with intent to use” the needles given out to them.

Residents and business owners have been complaining about syringes littering the streets of some Boston neighborhoods for years. Perhaps nowhere more so than the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue ...

Mobile teams hired by the City of Boston to pick up discarded needles have seen a lot more of them since the start of the pandemic. Nearly 400,000 syringes were disposed of by the city in the first ...

Ronnie Warn was bewildered when he spotted the sign on the door of the Santa Ana office where he routinely brings used needles and picks up clean ones. The Harm Reduction Institute was closed, it said ...

The science is solid. The politics are more partisan than ever. While COVID-19 raged in the United States, a set of public health crises was pushed to the background. HIV and drug use flourished ...