Should needle-exchange programs be part of Indiana’s fight against opioid abuse? About two months ago, I found a syringe in my front yard, which is one block from a high school. More recently, I ...

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Co.), a global medical technology company, and Casella Waste Systems Inc., a Rutland, Vermont-based solid waste, recycling and resource management services company, have ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Some organizations tasked with cleaning up downtown Portland say the number of needles they’re finding is increasing exponentially. Just in the past ’21-’22 fiscal year, ...

A SPATE of vandalism is being investigated by police after syringes were left stuck in flowerbeds with the needles pointing upwards. Broken vodka bottles were also left in the ground less than a week ...

An increase in needle and syringe collection from Melbourne's city streets has been linked to a surge in intravenous drug use in the CBD that lord mayor Robert Doyle described as an "epidemic".

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