One in nine people in prisons globally have a history of injecting drug use and their risk of HIV, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis is up to 45 times higher than in the general population. Yet access ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
Most people believe that smoking major drugs like heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine, or cocaine is much safer than injecting the drug. After all, there are serious risks of major skin abscesses with ...
Fentanyl is heated before being smoked at Hoa Mai Park on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, in Seattle’s Little Saigon neighborhood. More illegal drug users in Washington state are smoking drugs rather than ...
In a quiet corner of Glasgow’s East End, a radical public health experiment is underway. For the first time in the United Kingdom, people who inject illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine can do so ...
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 ...
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