A new Australian-first study from the Burnet Institute has found that every dollar invested in Australian prison needle and ...

Australia leads the world in community-based needle programs. Yet they’re not used in prisons – which are hotspots for ...

"Harm reduction" interventions for substance use—measures like needle exchange programs and methadone distribution that aim ...

A record shop owner who was attacked by a nurse armed with a syringe filled with a deadly drug says he still has no idea why ...

“I started spending my own money on it and that's how I got here.” He takes part in the needle exchange. Dipolelo Lekota is one of the few female drug users at the site. The 30-year-old said ...

In the project backed by the University of Pretoria and the Tshwane municipality, they offer the chance to exchange needles for new, sterile ones. Needle exchange is not a new idea globally ...

In the project backed by the University of Pretoria and the Tshwane municipality, they offer the chance to exchange needles for new, sterile ones. Needle exchange is not a new idea globally ...

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) REMOVES INCORRECT IDENTIFICATION OF SUBJECT - A vagrant drug addict with a cane limps while walking to a syringe exchange program tent for medical help, on the outskirts of ...