Safety injection devices, such as safety syringes and safety needles are designed to eliminate needlestick injuries while also increasing the safety of drug administration. Here are five things to ...

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 ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Weight loss injections have become incredibly popular in the last year or so. In fact, these medications are so widely used that there ...

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Could safe injection sites help Philadelphia's overdose crisis? In September, Philadelphia city council voted to ban what are known as safe injection sites, a major blow for advocates who say these ...

San Francisco Health Director Barbara Garcia has never opposed the idea of safe injection sites for drug users. Her comment at a Board of Supervisors hearing last week raised the possibility that the ...

José Benitez believes so strongly that his public-health nonprofit has an effective approach to helping people who use drugs that his organization has taken the U.S. Justice Department to court. He is ...

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 ...

Now we’re finding out that there are three “underground” safe injection sites operating in Seattle, according to a report by KIRO 7. The people behind “safe injection sites” steal language again.