The Madison County commissioners have voted in favor of extending the county’s needle exchange program for another two years. As IPR’s Thomas Ouellette reports, the program may be cut before 2027, if ...

The global injectable drug delivery devices market size is calculated at USD 565 billion in 2025 and is expected to reach around USD 1,217 billion by ...

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s veto on a City Council resolution lifting limits on needle exchange locations looks like it will ...

Once cleaned, they will insert a sterile needle into a vein and draw a small amount of blood into a tube or vial. The healthcare professional will likely apply a small amount of pressure to the ...

With an estimated 400,000 South Africans using heroin and 82,500 administering drugs by injection, harm reduction services are essential. But there is resistance from some quarters.

A nurse who injected a record shop owner with a muscle-relaxing anaesthetic intended "nothing less" than to kill him, a jury has been told. Darren Harris, 58, from Middlesbrough, stabbed Gary ...

The bleakness of Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle is intimate and inescapable. Loosely inspired by the story of Dagmar Overbye, a Danish child caretaker turned serial killer in the ...

Pete Volk (he/they) is Polygon’s Curation Editor, with a particular love for action and martial arts movies. 2024 was a great year for movies, and some of the year’s best were reflected in ...

Workers at “needle exchange” spots across the city may be forced to collect used drug syringes that end up as litter under a new bill unveiled Thursday. Council member Oswald Feliz’s new ...

And this change is no exception. Comments under a MailOnline article announcing the smart tills claimed it would make shopping a ‘sterile chore’. Others dispaired at the lack of personal ...

Peter Krykant (pictured) ran a van-based pilot before the UK’s first drug consumption room opened in Glasgow last week (Picture: Katielee Arrowsmith/SWNS) You’re more likely to find an empty ...