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’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 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 ...
Most people have an aversion to injecting drugs, especially intravenously; it's referred to as "the needle barrier." For much of the 20th century, this aversion was a powerful deterrent to the use of ...
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 ...
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