Tag: Hypodermic Needles and Syringes

A Day Care Death and the Dilemma Over How to Crack Down on Drugs

Fentanyl use is increasingly out in the open, and increasingly fatal. But New Yorkers are divided over what to do: decriminalize it or make more arrests.

Workers Fighting America’s Overdose Crisis Are ‘Hanging by a Thread’

President Biden has endorsed “harm reduction,” which aims to cut down on overdoses by encouraging safer drug use. But the organizations carrying out that strategy are severely underfunded.