KNOXVILLE — A new program in Knoxville aims to reduce the spread of disease and put a dent in the overdose epidemic. The Syringe Service Program allows drug users to exchange dirty syringes used to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It can seem counterintuitive to provide clean syringes to individuals who inject drugs. After all, why make it easier to consume ...

As we now know, addiction is not a choice, but a medical condition and living with it can be tragic in itself. Adding in the risk of blood-borne infections, such as HIV and hepatitis B/C (acquired by ...

Recently, Duluth's Center for Alcohol & Drug Treatment agreed to host a syringe-exchange program sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Health through the Rural AIDS Action Network. The purpose was ...

In 2015, a rural HIV outbreak in Indiana exploded into national headlines. More than 230 people in Scott County, primarily in the small town of Austin, were diagnosed with HIV, making it the largest ...

Evergreen Health Services’ syringe-exchange program has started in Jamestown. Kimberly Lombard, Evergreen Health Services senior director of grants management and quality, said the program stared in ...

As Indiana officials struggled to contain an outbreak of HIV among people who injected drugs, then-Gov. Mike Pence reluctantly followed the urgings of public health officials and cleared the way for ...