Sep. 13—Portland leaders are weighing how best to address increasing reports of discarded needles along city streets and parks, with the proposals ranging from reducing the number of clean needles ...

With complaints about syringe litter on the rise, the New York City Council is considering a new way to keep needles off of sidewalks and out of parks: Paying drug users to turn them in. Similar to a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Some organizations tasked with cleaning up downtown Portland say the number of needles they’re finding is increasing exponentially. Just in the past ’21-’22 fiscal year, ...

As Indiana officials struggled to contain an outbreak of HIV among people who injected drugs, then-Gov. Mike Pence reluctantly followed the urgings of public health officials and cleared the way for ...

A nurse in a Texas hospital mistakenly believed saline flush prefilled syringes could be reused in separate patients’ intravenous lines, which led to a hepatitis C transmission in 2015, according to 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 ...

Laser Cleaning Aluminum (500WATTS) - Old Syringe Restoration,is the video of this week, about the latest technique in the field of restorations. In this video I used a powerful laser to clean aluminum ...

nearly 1 percent “sometimes or always” reuse a syringe but change the needle for use on a second patient; and fifteen percent reported reuse of a syringe to enter a multi-dose vial. Such actions can ...

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