EDWARDSVILLE – An officer poked with a syringe while searching a vehicle driven by a heroin user in June is doing OK and remains on patrol, Police Chief David Souchick said Wednesday. Officer Ryan ...

In March 2024, Oregon quashed its efforts to decriminalize illicit drugs, which would have been the first of such laws in the nation, but the debate on how to curb the growing drug overdose epidemic ...

They hide in weeds along hiking trails and in playground grass. They wash into rivers and float downstream to land on beaches. They pepper baseball dugouts, sidewalks and streets. Syringes left by ...

Discusses Integrated Prefillable Syringe Systems to Streamline Drug Development and Reduce Complexity February ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NYC workers may be forced to clean up drug needles next to syringe ‘exchange’ spots thanks to new bill Workers at “needle exchange ...

CUYAHOGA COUNTY, Ohio — A pilot drug checking program at the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office is offering new insight on the opioid epidemic in the county, including showing a disconnect ...

For another year, lawmakers in the state House of Delegates are attempting to ban syringe service programs across West Virginia. Members of the House Subcommittee on Public Health on Wednesday ...

But the prison officers’ union, jail authorities, and the opposition slammed the Australian Medical Association (AMA) idea as “dangerous”, with the union saying jail is for rehabilitation not drug ...

APPLETON (WLUK) – A bond reduction request was denied Thursday for a mother charged in connection with the overdose death of her 2-year-old daughter, and who also allegedly smuggled a drug-filled ...

"Let's rethink glass," says specialty glass and glass ceramics developer Schott (Elmsford, NY) on its website. Sometimes, that revisionist thinking leads to plastics. At Interphex 2015, which was held ...