The Health Streets pilot program includes outreach to injection drug users Responding to what it called a significant increase in heroin and other injection drug use, the Multnomah County Health Department has installed two large sharps containers along P ...
4 Feb 2016 - Street Roots Staff
I remember thinking there is so much in the world that is so dire and about which I can do nothing. In the mid 1980s HIV was one of those dire things and back then nearly always meant death. It was happening here in my city, my community, but unlike many ...
31 Dec 2014 - Kathy Oliver
Bridget didn’t want to buy syringes at the pharmacy. It was too humiliating an ordeal for the champion gymnast turned heroin addict to go through. Not too long ago she was doing well in high school, never dreaming she would be a junkie within a few years’ ...
29 Dec 2014 - Emily Green
Staff Reports In 1989, Portland’s Outside In, which provides varied services and health care to homeless youth and low-income communities, began a revolutionary needle exchange program. One of the first in the country to offer needle exchange, Outside In ...
10 May 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Another political casualty: Needle exchange programs rely on local support after the feds bail on funding By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer For the second time in two years, Congress is reversing its policy on federal funding for syringe exchange programs ...
2 Feb 2012 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Winter in Portland has finally caught up with us, especially the hard-working men and women out selling Street Roots. Remember to keep a dollar or two dry when you head out this weekend and pick up the latest edition of Street Roots from you ...
19 Jan 2012 - Street Roots