FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Heated messages of disapproval, disgust, and anger from several Fresno city leaders about Fresno County bringing a needle exchange program to Fulton Street in Downtown ...

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Both city and county officials are speaking out after Fresno County recently approved a Free Medical Clinic and Needle Exchange program. But the plan is controversial, ...

Among those who spoke out against a potential safe needle exchange ordinance was Auburn’s Republican state Rep. Laurel Libby, ...

Decades of research show syringe programs are extremely effective at preventing infectious disease among intravenous drug users and referring them to treatment.

The Atlantic City Council voted to end the city's needle exchange program that had been in place for the past 14 years, claiming other municipalities in the state were "sending their problems" to ...

Opioid overdose deaths in Orange County are rising sharply, with annual deaths nearly tripling in the four years ending in 2021. It is no coincidence that for much of that time, and again today, ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The free needle exchange program in Downtown Fresno’s Fulton Street, which will allow the exchange of dirty drug paraphernalia, will start next month. The state-funded ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) -- California has revoked its approval of a proposed needle-exchange program in Santa Ana, the latest development in an ongoing controversy over the plan. The program would ...

It's often said that change is the only constant. One of the most sobering changes confronting Fargo-Moorhead is the explosive growth of the opioid epidemic. Even a few years ago, who would have ...

SANTA CRUZ — For more than 30 years, public health officials and nonprofits in California have provided clean hypodermic needles to people who use them to inject drugs. For nearly that entire time, ...

Auburn does not currently have a needle exchange program and has a moratorium in place that prevents one from opening.