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 ...

Decades of research show syringe programs are extremely effective at preventing infectious disease among intravenous drug ...

(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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The use of low dead space syringes was associated with a 76% reduction in the odds of hepatitis C virus ...

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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 ...

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.