They might not know it themselves. It is therefore never safe to share someone else's needles or syringes. Trained health workers should sterilise needles and syringes before they are used again.

They might not know it themselves. It is therefore never safe to share someone else's needles or syringes. Trained health workers should sterilise needles and syringes before they are used again.

But syringe exchange programs became an easy target for politicians who in some communities chose to put crippling restraints on them. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called a ...

Cities and towns, faced with the spread of blood-borne diseases like HIV from addicts sharing needles ... Titled “Are Syringe Exchange Programs Helpful or Harmful? New Evidence in the Wake ...

Locals near a needle exchange site in a Bronx park are cheering a councilman’s proposal to require city health workers to collect hundreds of discarded syringes littering the ground. Oswald ...

Beyond that, though, it also negates the 1,000-foot buffer between the needle-sharing sites and schools or daycares but the ordinance still needs Mayor Mike Johnston’s approval. Needle-sharing ...

Shocking images of a pile of syringes dumped on a street in Welling ... the Council on 22 January concerning the sharp bin and the needles in Kay Street and this was immediately referred to ...