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Locals near NYC needle exchange site cheer plan to force city to collect used syringes: ‘You clean it up’ Georgett Roberts, Steve Janoski January 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
OnPoint NYC is a New York City nonprofit that operates two privately run safe injection sites in East Harlem and Washington Heights. [2] At the sites, drug users use illegal drugs under supervision. [3] Placed at the sites of existing syringe service programs, [4] these were America's first safe injection facilities when they opened in November ...
Injector pens remove some of the complications of syringes by allowing the pen to be "pushed" against the skin at a 90-degree angle (removing the need to inject at a proper angle as is the case with syringes), as well as by replacing a long, thin plunger of a syringe with a simple button which is depressed and held to inject the dose. [2]
A Bronx council member wants to force the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to pick up used drug needles that were handed out as part of the city's needle exchange programs.
A needle and syringe programme (NSP), also known as needle exchange program (NEP), is a social service that allows injection drug users (IDUs) to obtain clean and unused hypodermic needles and associated paraphernalia at little or no cost.
Feb. 14—HARRISBURG — Clean needle exchanges intended to prevent fatal drug overdoses and direct those in addiction to seek recovery would be legalized in a bill that advanced Wednesday in the ...
The Tubex Syringe cartridge was developed c. 1943 during World War II by the Wyeth company. It is a drug pre-filled glass cartridge syringe with an attached sterile needle, which is inserted in a reusable stainless steel holder (now plastic). The product was manufactured for immediate injection once the pre-filled cartridge was attached to the ...
The coffee giant is exploring possible remedies after employees expressed fears about being pricked by uncapped needles.