Las Vegas health officials are turning a familiar piece of equipment — the vending machine — into a first-in-the-nation experiment to automate the dispensing of clean needles for intravenous drug ...

Community health centres across the city are going ahead with a pilot project that will stock vending machines with free access to sterile needles and crack pipes. It's part of a harm-reduction ...

Needles are usually seen as a necessary evil, but maybe they don't have to be. Plenty of painless alternatives are in the works, like microneedle patches, a laser-based device that pushes drugs ...

The small city of North Adams, nestled in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, is well-know as a hub of contemporary art, a bucolic haven for stressed New Yorkers, and an autumn leaf peeping ...

1:58 Federal government making it easier to open safe injection sites Ottawa Public Health officials want to install vending machines across the city that will dispense clean needles and pipes in an ...

Ottawa Public Health is hoping to install vending machines throughout the city that would dispense clean needles and pipes to drug users. As part of a pilot project the secured machines would be ...