needle exchange

After a similar proposal emerged this month in the House, Sen. Oscar Braynon, D-Miami Gardens, filed a proposal Thursday that would expand a…

Florida could soon allow sterile needle exchanges across the state.According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, there are about 300 needle exchange programs…

There's a bridge in Overtown, under the 836 Expressway, that has long sheltered homeless people, many of whom are addicted to heroin. Now a public...

As Florida’s legislative session winds down, the clock is running out on a bill that would expand legal needle exchange access in Broward and Palm Beach...

Senate Minority Leader Oscar Braynon, D-Miami Gardens, agreed Friday to scale back his efforts to take a needle-exchange program statewide.Braynon…

An effort to expand a needle-exchange program statewide was scrapped Tuesday by a House health care committee, which agreed to extend the Miami-Dade…

The Senate is inching closer to approving a bill that would allow hospitals, clinics, medical schools and substance-abuse treatment programs to begin…

New legislation expanding a needle-exchange program moved through both the Florida House and Senate today.

On a recent Tuesday morning, Emy Martinez walked around a couple of blocks in Overtown, looking for used needles to deposit in the sharps container in...

Senate Minority Leader Oscar Braynon, D-Miami Gardens, filed a proposal Wednesday that would expand a pilot needle-exchange program into Palm Beach…