Nearly 200 attendees of Premier healthcare alliance and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition's open meeting in April developed 22 safe injection practices that span education, clinical best ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers a free, downloadable checklist to help improve compliance to safe injection practices. The checklist, which can be utilized in both inpatient and ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition have released new educational tools on safe injection practices. The materials include a training presentation ...

A free injection safety myths and truths flyer is available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Safe Injection Practices Coalition’s One & Only Campaign. The flyer includes four ...

The United States is in the midst of a long-running opioid epidemic that has killed nearly one million people since 1999 and cost over $1trillion in health care, law enforcement and social services ...

(*This story was updated at 9:43 a.m. on Friday, April 5, 2024 to correct a quotation from a spokesman for City Manager Eric Batista.) As deaths caused by opioid overdoses continue to rise yearly in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The country is facing a drug overdose crisis, and those impacts are felt in the Pacific Northwest as well. Recovery advocates across the country have long-pushed for an intervention ...

Editors’ Note: Knowledgeable Brooklynites with insights into their own drug problems will sometimes find themselves drawn to a spot near the 125th Street subway and Metro North stations, far north of ...

Needle-sharing programs, also referred to as needle exchange or syringe services programs, are integral to public health efforts. These initiatives supply clean needles and syringes to individuals who ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday vetoed a measure from a Bay Area lawmaker that would have allowed the opening of safe injection sites, where opioid users can legally inject drugs in ...

Yet even as the Trump Administration challenged New York and Chicago’s sanctuary laws, a new White House executive order aimed at reducing “urban disorder” could open the door for an analogous case: A ...

An unnerving case of a St. Paul nurse practitioner reusing syringes and exposing 161 patients to infection risk shows that unsafe injection practices still occur in U.S. health care. But the reasons ...