The new toolkit is designed to support the implementation and scale-up of hepatitis B and C interventions in prisons across Europe. It also reinforces the principle of "equivalence of care," ensuring ...

HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection and injection drug use are major public health problems in the United States today. The focus of this study lies at the interface of these two critical ...

Butabika National Referral Mental Hospital has taken over a critical addiction treatment programme for people who inject ...

Harm reduction initiatives, like syringe services programs, can reduce HIV transmission among people who inject drugs. A recent executive order threatens such programs. (Photo by Robert ...

Evansville, Ind. — Lavender Timmons popped the trunk of her weather-beaten 2007 Ford Focus parked near the city’s homeless shelter. Regulars gathered around, including one drug user who in the past ...

Background: In Iran, there are an estimated 200,000 injecting drug users (IDUs). Injecting drug use is a relatively new phenomenon for this country, where opium smoking was the predominant form of ...

With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Republican lawmakers and state officials are pushing for an alternative: the firing squad. Lethal injection ...

Little is known about how Indiana acquired pentobarbital, a drug that state officials have used twice for executions in the last year. The drug is expected to be used again for death row inmate Roy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The chair used for firing squad executions is shown in the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility. With lethal ...