The Washington Post

Dangerous or life-saving? Why drug programs that stop disease are under fire.

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Lavender Timmons popped the trunk of her weather ...

Drug injection rates cut nearly in half at WA needle exchanges, UW survey finds

A recent University of Washington (UW) survey found that the number of respondents reporting injecting drugs in a given year ...
Infectious Disease Advisor

Hospitalization Burden of Injection Drug Use-Related Infections Remains High in TN

Tennessee hospitalizations for injection drug use-related infections remain a major clinical and economic burden despite rates plateauing after 2018.
STAT

Drug injection fades as smoking grows more common, marking sea change in U.S. fentanyl epidemic

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. ROCHESTER, N.H. — Megan Merrill paused, mid-hike, as she surveyed the steep drop before her. She was standing on a five-foot snow drift, icy ...
komonews

Washington drug use shifts to more smoking, less injecting; Meth remains #1 drug of choice

SEATTLE — A noteworthy shift in how people use illegal drugs has emerged among visitors to syringe-services programs in Washington state, according to a newly released health survey. In 2021, 93% of ...
Forbes

New Executive Order Could Thwart Efforts To End HIV

Harm reduction initiatives, like syringe services programs, can reduce HIV transmission among people who inject drugs. A recent executive order threatens such programs. (Photo by Robert ...
CNN

Scotland faces up to its drug crisis by offering the UK’s first supervised injection facility

In a quiet corner of Glasgow’s East End, a radical public health experiment is underway. For the first time in the United Kingdom, people who inject illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine can do so ...