WUNC

Do you need an ID to buy syringes in North Carolina? It’s complicated.

It’s early evening in mid-December when a middle aged man walks up to the pharmacy counter at a Walgreens in Asheville. He asks to buy a bag of syringes. The pharmacy technician walks to grab them ...
WESA

Opioid settlement money is supposed to expand syringe services. Pa.’s drug laws stand in the way.

Kim Botteicher works in the basement of a Bolivar, Pa. church. She provides syringe services as part of her charitable work. In the basement of a former Catholic church, in a tiny Westmoreland County ...
AZOM

Using a Syringe Sampler for Chemical Batch Sampling

Particle size specification for process chemicals is an important quality control measure for the semiconductor industry. Cutting-edge microelectronics producers need ultra-clean process chemicals ...
Medscape

Oral Syringes: A Crucial and Economical Risk-reduction Strategy that has Not been Fully Utilized

Problem: ISMP has repeatedly stressed the importance of never using parenteral syringes to prepare or administer small volumes of oral/enteral products; instead, an oral syringe should always be used.

Pushback on syringe services hurts Maine’s HIV fight, experts say

Some local officials want to hamper needle exchange programs that public health officials say are crucial to reducing the spread of blood-borne diseases.
New York Post

I’m an ER doctor — this is the best, painless way to remove a splinter

Don’t let a splinter get out of hand — a California ER doctor is sharing his simple removal hack. Dr. Joe Whittington, who goes by Dr. Joe on TikTok, recommends getting a clean, unused medicine ...
Los Angeles Times

California backs syringe programs. But they’re nowhere to be found in Orange County

Ronnie Warn was bewildered when he spotted the sign on the door of the Santa Ana office where he routinely brings used needles and picks up clean ones. The Harm Reduction Institute was closed, it said ...