The needle exchange program in Madison County has been extended for another two years. The Madison County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday voted to extend the program which has been operating in the ...
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New York City council member Oswald Feliz proposes two bills aimed to prevent syringes from ending up in parks.
Some needle exchange programs offer clean smoking pipes, testing strips and overdose reversal drugs. Sites also allow disposal of used needles so that they don’t end up being reused or dropped ...
Workers at “needle exchange” spots across the city may be forced to collect used drug syringes that end up as litter under a new bill unveiled Thursday. Council member Oswald Feliz’s new ...
With no opposition expressed, Madison County Commissioners are expected to extend the needle-exchange program for two years through 2027. On Tuesday, the commissioners voted to consider the extension ...
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s veto on a City Council resolution lifting limits on needle exchange locations looks like it will ...
But, he wrote, the council ordinance passed in an 8-5 vote on Monday that would have allowed for a great expansion of needle exchange sites “is the wrong solution at the wrong time.” ...
Locals near a needle exchange site in a Bronx park are cheering a councilman’s proposal to require city health workers to collect hundreds of discarded syringes littering the ground. Oswald ...
Shortly after sunrise, John Gobbi stepped gingerly across a sidewalk in Boston’s South End strewn with dirty and discarded drug needles. Every so often his work boots crushed another syringe ...
The Madison County commissioners have voted in favor of extending the county’s needle exchange program for another two years. As IPR’s Thomas Ouellette reports, the program may be cut before 2027, if ...