As Indiana officials struggled to contain an outbreak of HIV among people who injected drugs, then-Gov. Mike Pence reluctantly followed the urgings of public health officials and cleared the way for ...
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 ...
State Rep. Jim Struzzi (R., Indiana) says he was initially skeptical of syringe services programs but now believes they can help get people into treatment, reduce the spread of disease, and offer hope ...
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — The Dayton & Montgomery County Public Health office announced that CarePoint’s syringe services mobile unit is closed Wednesday. According to a release from the public health ...
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 ...
Kim Botteicher works in the basement of a Bolivar church. She provides syringe services as part of her charitable work. Credit: Nate Smallwood for Spotlight PA This article is part of The State of ...
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 ...