An Upper Manhattan subway station is a needle graveyard, with the tracks littered with hundreds of used syringes tossed by junkies after they shoot up on the platforms, straphangers say.

A San Francisco supervisor wants to expand a program that provides clean bathrooms and boxes to dispose of needles at some city parks.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – For several months now, WCCO has been looking into the needle littering problem in parts of Minneapolis. The city is installing it's 11th syringe drop box this week in north ...

Metro officials chose the neighborhood as a site for the city’s needle exchange program nearly 10 years ago. That’s when Wright noticed a change.

That’s not what needle exchanges are for. Instead, their primary purpose is to prevent dirty or shared needles from creating secondary public health problems, such as spreading hepatitis C or HIV.

The needle exchange, made possible by a gubernatorial emergency order, gave 43 people more than 1,500 syringes in exchange for 580 used needles. One of those was a return visitor, said Brittany ...