A study out of Bowling Green State University found a dangerous fungus present on needles used to inject drugs.

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Rate of HIV infection in intravenous drug users in the U.S. in 2009, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That rate has fallen by half — from 18% — since the 1990s. Despite the ...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, “DO NOT USE.” They contain cookers and sterile water that people use to shoot ...

A previous post reviewed data about drug use among sexual and gender minority people. In addition to its direct health risks, drug use is associated with an increased risk of HIV infection. It might ...

FRESNO, CALIF. - The nation's capital of intravenous drug use is not New York or Miami, not Chicago or Detroit — but Fresno. It is an unlikely distinction for a city of fewer than 500,000 people in ...

Fewer needles are being exchanged through the Yakima Health District's harm reduction programs as more users smoke fentanyl and methamphetamine in pill form. Meanwhile demand for overdose-reversing ...