As at-home healthcare continues to grow, ensuring sharps are consistently and properly disposed of will only become more ...

Winnebago County residents can now safely dispose of medical sharps at five new drop-off locations across the area.

With millions of Canadians expected to take GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic and generic equivalents over the coming months, officials are reemphasizing what belongs in a blue box and what must be ...

Baddeck - The Municipality of Victoria County is reminding resident’s on proper sharps disposal procedures after a needle was found in the county’s recycling stream earlier this month. “To some people ...

Mike Plotkin, who’s been a New York City sanitation worker for 20 years, recently noticed something happening at his garage on Staten Island. In the last 14 months, there have been 15 incidents in ...

Needles linked to drug use have been found in a car park in County Londonderry. The syringes were discovered in a car park in the Main Street area of Limavady on Tuesday afternoon. Police confirmed ...

Jeanne Marquis, of China, a former volunteer director of the Maine Recovery Access Program for five years, picks up trash in April during a community cleanup day in Augusta. Marquis said, “I love ...

My generation—which is to say, the pillbox generation—came of age during the 1990s. The number of adults who were taking five or more prescription drugs doubled in that decade; the use of medications ...

A recent University of Washington (UW) survey found that the number of respondents reporting injecting drugs in a given year has dropped nearly 50% from 2021 to 2025. In 2021, UW recorded 93% of ...

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KOAA) — Fire danger is high, and proper mitigation is key to protecting the community. We have had a few people ask Senior Reporter Tony Keith recently what to do with all the ...