Decades of research show syringe programs are extremely effective at preventing infectious disease among intravenous drug ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The use of low dead space syringes was associated with a 76% reduction in the odds of hepatitis C virus ...

A new report on HIV in Fiji is recommending the set-up of a needle syringe program, to provide sterile needles, as soon as ...

(CNN) — The percentage of overdose deaths linked to smoking drugs rose sharply in recent years, overtaking injection as the leading route of drug use involved in such deaths, according to a new report ...

The recently passed Philadelphia budget that removes funding for syringes in the life-saving needle exchange services is a misguided step that will harm not just people who inject drugs but the ...

Vol. 135, No. 1S, Supplement 1: Using Public Health Policy to Reduce the Morbidity, Mortality, and Incidence of HIV, Viral Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Tuberculosis (July/August 2020) ...

Smoking a drug is the quickest way for it to reach the brain. People may have switched from injecting drugs to smoking due to a perception that the overdose risk is lower, according to the report.