Results from the latest Syringe Services Program (SSP) Health Survey reveal that, since 2021, there has been a 49 percentage point decrease in respondents injecting drugs. In 2025, 90% of respondents ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. ROCHESTER, N.H. — Megan Merrill paused, mid-hike, as she surveyed the steep drop before her. She was standing on a five-foot snow drift, icy ...

Lev’s reporting has explored Americans’ deadly hostility to addiction medications, subpar treatment offered in jails and prisons, shifts in the illicit drug supply and consumption behavior, ...

"The main argument for those against supervised injection sites would be that it would bring crime to the area, that it would increase the use of drugs, that it would actually enc ...

A recently released study by the Coalition for Applied Modeling for Prevention (CAMP) and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlights the colossal rise in injection drug ...

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 ...

Has the time finally arrived to challenge prevailing federal law in an effort to save addicts’ lives? Among the priorities of a major Massachusetts physicians group this legislative session includes ...