Experts view a shift from injecting fentanyl to smoking it as a promising development that could cut overdose deaths and reduce needle-related harms.

NEW YORK (AP) — Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called ...

A bill that would ban all syringe service programs in the state of West Virginia advanced through a House subcommittee on ...

Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood has become widely regarded as ground zero for xylazine — a.k.a. “tranq” — a veterinary drug that’s being added to fentanyl with devastating affects. Disturbing ...

(CNN) — The percentage of overdose deaths linked to smoking drugs rose sharply in recent years, overtaking injection as the leading route of drug use involved in such deaths, according to a new report ...

The recently passed Philadelphia budget that removes funding for syringes in the life-saving needle exchange services is a misguided step that will harm not just people who inject drugs but the ...

For Indiana’s syringe exchange programs to survive, they might face new restrictions that public health advocates say will undercut efforts to help intravenous drug abusers kick their addictions. The ...

Renewing and sustaining syringe exchange programs is essential to protecting public health, saving lives and maintaining the ...

Smoking a drug is the quickest way for it to reach the brain. People may have switched from injecting drugs to smoking due to a perception that the overdose risk is lower, according to the report.