Tag: Hypodermic Needles and Syringes

Nebraska Lawmakers Sustain Veto of Needle Exchange Bill

Nebraska seemed poised last month to become an unlikely counterpoint to the national trend of tightening drug laws. A coalition of liberal and conservative legislators in the state passed, by a wide margin, a bill to allow local governments to establish needle exchanges. But Gov. Jim Pillen vetoed the bill, warning against bringing “the failed […]

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Can San Francisco Solve Its Drug Crisis? Five Things to Consider.

San Francisco is in the middle of a drug crisis. Overdose deaths reached a record high last year, topping 800. Public drug use is widespread in some neighborhoods. How did San Francisco get to this point? In part, it follows the national story: The rise of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, and a destabilizing pandemic caused […]

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A Day Care Death and the Dilemma Over How to Crack Down on Drugs

A few blocks away from where a 1-year-old boy died, possibly from fentanyl poisoning at his Bronx day care this month, an open-air drug market -persists along a trash-strewn underpass. On Wednesday, a man on a moped arrived in the late afternoon and about a dozen users ambled over to purchase drugs with dollar bills […]

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