A bill to legalize syringe services programs across the state that recently cleared a key Pennsylvania House committee in a mostly party-line vote is getting a mixed reaction from lawmakers, treatment ...

On Oct. 27, there was a major rally in Harrisburg to support the expansion of syringe services programs (SSPs) in Pennsylvania. The rally was attended by legislators, state government officials, ...

Kim Botteicher works in the basement of a Bolivar, Pa. church. She provides syringe services as part of her charitable work. In the basement of a former Catholic church, in a tiny Westmoreland County ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 11—CLARK COUNTY — The Syringe Services Program, formerly the Needle Exchange Program, that has been helping the community for ...

Syringe services programs—sites where people who use drugs can access sterile syringes and dispose of injection equipment—often face political backlash. But a new study shows the effectiveness of ...

Syringe services programs have definitively established positive public health impacts yet have long-faced significant political opposition. Recent moves to shutter or undermine SSPs are poorly timed ...

Katherine Hill is an epidemiologist, harm reduction researcher and PhD candidate at the Yale School of Public Health studying the drug supply in the Northeastern U.S. Both her grandmother and father ...

City Councilor Carolyn Fish said the proposal was meant to nudge other communities to take responsibility for their residents ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Syringe services programs — sites where people who use drugs can access sterile syringes and dispose of injection equipment — often face political backlash. But a ...

A new study shows the effectiveness of syringe services programs in both curbing HIV transmission among people who use drugs and preventing future outbreaks. Syringe services programs -- sites where ...