Without access to sterile injecting equipment, needle sharing and unsafe injecting practices are common. As a result, people who inject drugs in prison are at higher risk of transmitting blood ...

But Australia does not have a prison needle and syringe program, despite evidence showing their effectiveness. Author of the paper, Burnet senior research officer Dr. Farah Houdroge said their ...

Background: Needle exchange programs are effective public health interventions that reduce blood-borne infections, including hepatitis C, and injection-related infections. We sought to assess the ...

For every dollar invested in Canada’s prison needle-exchange programs, an estimated $2 is saved in hepatitis C and injection-related infection treatment costs, according to a new study in the ...

"Cost–benefit analysis of Canada's Prison Needle Exchange Program for the prevention of hepatitis C and injection-related infections" and "The burden of drug overdose deaths among correctional ...

Needle-pickup requests last year reached the ... “If it wasn’t for that van, I swear to God that I’d either be dead or in prison,” said Gobbi, who is now sober and this month moved into ...