NEW YORK -- Residents who live around St. Mary's Park in the South Bronx say there is a large drug problem impacting the community. One resident said she's tired of seeing used needles and syringes ...

Each needle, syringe, vial, and packaging joins the waste from approximately 198 million doses of influenza vaccine the CDC produced for this season, says Jim Anderson, vice president of product ...

DENVER — The City of Denver's strategy to battle the opioid epidemic includes what's called harm reduction. It focuses on reducing the number of people overdosing, increasing the number of people ...

Mike Nichols, who’s 66 and has lived in southeastern Washington all his life, has used drugs – including opioids and meth – for more than 40 years. “99 percent of my friends are dead,” he said while ...

Every year, billions of single-use needles as well as syringes are manufactured that range from surgical and hypodermic through to winged infusion sets and lancets. The medical device market is a ...

ELKO, Nev. — Richard Cusolito believes he’s saving lives by distributing clean syringes and needles to people who use drugs in this rural area of northeastern Nevada — but he knows some residents ...

Subcutaneous (subQ or SQ) injections are shots given in the fatty tissue layer (subcutaneous fat) under your skin. Your skin has many layers, and the subcutaneous layer is beneath the epidermis and ...