WASHINGTON — The federal coronavirus response created a reversal of fortune for Retractable Technologies Inc., a small syringe manufacturing company overlooking Lewisville Lake on the northern edge of ...
Mike Nichols, who’s 66 and has lived in southeastern Washington all his life, has used drugs – including opioids and meth – for more than 40 years. “99 percent of my friends are dead,” he said while ...
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 ...
DENVER — The City of Denver's strategy to battle the opioid epidemic includes what's called harm reduction. It focuses on reducing the number of people overdosing, increasing the number of people ...
Residents and business owners have been complaining about syringes littering the streets of some Boston neighborhoods for years. Perhaps nowhere more so than the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue ...