Through the beauty and simplicity of a flower, one New York City organization is hoping to help keep their local parks cleaner and safer from dirty syringe needles. The Washington Heights CORNER ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- With heroin use soaring, a city park now has a drop box for syringes – and it is a first for New York City. As WCBS 880's Alex Silverman reported, the drop box looks more like ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — On the heels of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommending more access to clean syringes in the Kanawha County as HIV cases rise in the county, a new syringe ...

NEW YORK - A New York City organization is taking action to clean up drug needles and syringes littering a South Bronx park. It's a story CBS New York's Bronx reporter Shosh Bedrosian first reported ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It’s not every day that you stumble across an unopened box of syringes out in public on your way to work. However, that’s exactly what Rob Foran, a senior care assistant from ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — The number of syringes exchanged under a Multnomah County-funded program jumped to 5.5 million last year, up from 2016’s record of nearly 4 million. Meanwhile, the ...

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ALBANY — People found in possession of hypodermic needles and syringes may no longer risk arrest or jail time in New York under a bill that passed the state Legislature this week. The legislation, ...

Workers and volunteers on Tuesday unloaded box after box of syringes, gloves, suction equipment, skin scrub trays, masks and gowns onto trucks from a UCHealth loading dock in Colorado Springs as part ...