Hepatitis C kills more Americans every year than measles or AIDS. Many states' laws aren't helping to mitigate the disease, a new analysis finds.
Volunteers in inner cities launched the United States' first needle exchange programs, but now the need has moved to suburban and rural America.
The Indiana HIV outbreak highlights the need for science-based drug policy.
Political opposition to needle exchanges, reproductive health services, and other public health fixtures has helped create an outbreak in Scott County, Indiana.
HIV is a preventable disease, which makes the epidemic in rural Indiana all the more frustrating.
Indiana has temporarily lifted a ban on needle exchanges to help combat an HIV outbreak. Why leave the ban intact at all?