For example, hospitals have used syringes to deliver some medications but that has resulted in shortages of syringes, Fox said.
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In some areas, carrying around syringes can be evidence of selling drugs, so people are wary about carrying a lot of syringes.
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In some ways, this should be intuitive: Needle exchanges provide a place to get syringes, but also a place to dispose of syringes.
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Through visual inspections, they found 44 syringes per 1,000 census blocks in San Francisco, compared to 371 syringes per 1,000 census blocks in Miami.
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Through visual inspections, researchers found 44 syringes per 1,000 census blocks in San Francisco, compared with 371 syringes per 1,000 census blocks in Miami.
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Among the best ways of preventing spread of the virus are public health laws that allow access to clean syringes for drug users, such as needle exchange programs, decriminalization of the possession of syringes, and allowing the retail sale of syringes without a prescription.
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"These results suggest that [needle exchanges] are a significant means of collecting used syringes and do not increase the amount of publically discarded used syringes," the study concluded.
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At the Community Counseling Center of Southern Nevada, clean needle kits including syringes, alcohol swabs, a tourniquet and a disposal container for used syringes are offered free of charge.
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The group will also walk around surrounding areas to pick up and dispose of improperly discarded syringes, and maintain a phone line and email address for people to report syringes.
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Increasing awareness regarding the usage of smart syringes with safety mechanisms amongst the patients and the healthcare providers is anticipated to fuel the expansion of the smart syringes market over the forecast period.
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There's also potential in using phages as biological, targeted syringes.
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One problem is acquiring enough sterile syringes for their injections.
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The dangerous outbreak is reportedly the result of reusing syringes.
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"We haven't had any (recent) problems with syringes," Gamble said.
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Tubing, syringes and centrifuges were sterilised only once a day.
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And hospitals cannot hire doctors or buy medicines and syringes.
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Those syringes are a symptom of a broader, systemic issue.
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The Assistant Rated R for harsh words and scattered syringes.
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Syringes, gloves and other supplies are running out, she said.
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So if people are at risk of transmitting HIV or hepatitis C through reused syringes, maybe a program can give them a supply of sterile needles so that they don't need to reuse syringes.
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The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a potential class action accusing Becton Dickinson, two group purchasing organizations and several distributors of conspiring to raise prices of hypodermic syringes, "safety" syringes and IV catheters.
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Resealable plastic bagsAfter use, those syringes are going to be sticky.
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In return, she gets a bag full of syringes and bandages.
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Did the state exempt syringes from the definition of drug paraphernalia?
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Other miscellaneous medical supplies might include glasses, contact lenses, or syringes.
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Police found drugs and syringes in the home, according to their report.
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I mean, imagine if nurses had to go buy their own syringes.
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The sidewalks are full of hazards like human shit and used syringes.
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Discarded syringes litter the ground and users nod off after injecting heroin.
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Untrained citizens should leave syringes alone and report them to city officials.
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According to its website, Safehouse's facility would provide drug users with syringes.
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The thick, white fluid filled two fat syringes the diameter of quarters.
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He rehydrates the small, yellow flakes of dried human placental tissue by mixing it with saline, then starts to empty the small, clear bottles of Restylane filler into syringes before mixing it all together into new, larger syringes.
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A patient holds new syringes provided by a mobile health clinic in Tijuana.
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Visiting health workers saw many cases of doctors reusing syringes and IV needles.
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Visiting health workers saw many cases of doctors reusing syringes and I.V. needles.
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Local police officers, she added, have been getting hurt dealing with the syringes.
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What if humans attacked people with syringes full of opioid for self defense?
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Some days Roy opens his front door and sees broken bottles and syringes.
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The researchers also advise carrying syringes, tweezers, skin glue, Vaseline and blister treatments.
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Some argued that distributing sterile syringes to people who inject drugs was enabling.
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Then, she wound up distributing clean syringes to their customers in Mott Haven.
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The "Down-Range" or in-combat medics now carry syringes full of ketamine.
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Cocktails are prepared on operating-room trays, while shots are served in syringes.
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They're just filling syringes with coconut oil and putting it under the skin.
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Now "everybody wants to focus on syringes instead of lives," said Ms. Wilson.
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Cost: $160 for all the IVF medication, syringes, alcohol swabs, and disposal kit.
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The researchers found that using oral syringes rather than cups reduces those errors.
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He was also found partially naked and surrounded by syringes and sex toys.
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With refillable syringes, he said, the total yearly expense is less than $400,000.
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In Baltimore, Somerville said, a switch to syringes and epinephrine has been discussed.
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The syringes were much less likely to result in errors than the cups.
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Ms Correia gave him a pastry and some syringes, accepting used ones in return.
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The mosquitos are essentially syringes with wings, and can quickly infect thousands of people.
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Dr. Patricia Gonzalez-Zuniga gives a clinic pack with clean syringes to a patient.
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There were plastic measuring syringes everywhere, and folders stuffed with recipes and research notes.
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There is rubbish everywhere, blown by the wind alongside discarded orange caps from syringes.
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Syringes are dumped down drains, while other drugs paraphernalia lies scattered on the ground.
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A pile of plastic syringes and two padded briefcases lay scattered on the floor.
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At the clinic in Okanautoni, plastic gloves, syringes and disinfectant are in short supply.
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Basic medical supplies, like syringes and catheters, would be at risk of running out.
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Some versions of neti pots include bulb syringes, squeeze bottles, and pulsed water devices.
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A mild case of laugh lines can be corrected with one or two syringes.
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They said the waste included contaminated garments, leftover food, and medical supplies and syringes.
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Sometimes she would use syringes, taken from a relative with diabetes, to squirt water.
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He pointed to a spate of syringes found in Pepsi cans in the '90s.
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In fact, there is no battalion of jungle-hardened doctors polishing syringes in Geneva.
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A local resident who collects dozens of used syringes from a park every day.
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You shouldn't ever share syringes with anyone, even your spouse or someone you know.
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Health workers say the reuse of syringes drove the outbreak in the city of Ratodero.
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Health officials initially blamed the outbreak on a single pediatrician, saying he was reusing syringes.
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All the supplies, from gauze to syringes, had to be purchased out of his pocket.
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In hospitals, the chips could help track everything from patient gurneys to syringes and stethoscopes.
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Drug users are given free syringes, so they are less tempted to use dirty ones.
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She'd been refusing food and drink, but she took the scheduled syringes of morphine willingly.
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Adamis said its pre-filled epinephrine syringes would be sold under the brand name Symjepi.
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Adamis hoped to offer prefilled syringes, which would still be harder to use than EpiPens.
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Mr. Mass also littered the club with syringes he got from his earlier ambulance business.
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Consider needle exchanges, where people can pick up sterile syringes and trade in used needles.
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They worry that discarded syringes could threaten children and tourists playing in the area's parks.
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The exchange, Ms. Wilson said, has distributed close to one million clean syringes since 2017.
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I just noticed we are getting a whole lot less syringes than we were before.
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In a criminal information unsealed Wednesday, prosecutors also charged that Medical Initiatives prepared syringes by pooling drugs sold in glass vials that were meant for a single use, and did not maintain a sterile environment in its facility, resulting in contamination in some syringes.
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There are jello shots served in syringes, but the key here is the pizza they serve.
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Similar debris spills into nearby residential areas: parents complain of syringes and condoms found near schools.
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Before he switched to pens, he would reuse syringes and needles to inject himself with insulin.
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Syringes are scattered in the remains of a tent city along Division Street in San Francisco.
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He has yet to be convicted and has maintained his innocence, saying he never reuses syringes.
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People who have created workarounds for EpiPens have spent just $15 or so on the syringes.
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Another Sheraton employee cordoned off the area around the bin, which also contained syringes, Fattore recalled.
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The report claims when Chapo was captured authorities found injectable testosterone, syringes, antibiotics and anti-inflammatories.
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They also recovered latex gloves, syringes, and other chemicals in the storage unit, both papers report.
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It also said it submitted syringes on behalf of single patients in excess of safe doses.
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It added that it submitted syringes on behalf of single patients in excess of safe doses.
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During the first outbreak, nurses reportedly used five syringes on up to 600 patients a day.
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Some people argue that we could still just use syringes and epinephrine for far less money.
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Two days later, he issued an executive order allowing syringes to be distributed in Scott County.
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In 2288, he says, the program handed out 603 million syringes and collected 260 million back.
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Many communities in the US have no legal, free access to syringes and other injection equipment.
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The virus also can spread through direct contact with contaminated objects, such as needles and syringes.
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Billy Cortes's trailer church, a bin overflowed with trash, and the ground was covered with syringes.
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Under current state law, it's illegal to possess or distribute clean syringes for an "unlawful" purpose.
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They are just using them without any place to reliably visit to pick up sterile syringes.
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Two days later, he issued an executive order for syringes to be distributed in Scott County.
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He once told a pharmacist he was a science teacher in need of syringes for experiments.
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It says officers found syringes and two plastic baggies with substances that tested positive for methamphetamine.
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Consider needle exchanges, where people can get new syringes for drug use and discard used needles.
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In a criminal information unsealed in September, U.S. prosecutors also charged that Medical Initiatives prepared syringes by pooling drugs sold in glass vials that were meant for a single use, and did not maintain a sterile environment in its facility, resulting in contamination in some syringes.
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They also allegedly found lubricant and sex toys along with a handgun, syringes, insulin, gloves and Viagra.
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None of those sectors is particularly huge — syringes are the biggest, with $3.8 billion in annual revenue.
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Cleveland police say they found two syringes, a baggie and a spoon with residue by Chuck's body.
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To save money, some patients and doctors even resorted to making their own pre-filled epinephrine syringes.
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Meanwhile, Brien said she spots syringes on the ground every time she walks to and from work.
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Adding to the danger are thousands of used syringes dumped by junkies and left littering the streets.
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The availability of suitable syringes for delivering a smaller dose was also a limiting factor, he said.
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Each year, San Francisco hands out millions of syringes to drug users – 4.45 million to be exact .
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I sometimes see syringes on the sidewalk, but rarely such a blatant example of public drug use.
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Zukle: Someone complained about it, saying there were diapers and syringes in the parking lot—not true.
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Workers tasked with cleaning such camps in Seattle complained of used syringes, human feces, and copious garbage.
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Syringes have limited availability; in some states they're not available at pharmacies or you need a prescription.
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A few weeks later, I went back for the second treatment — in total, five syringes were used.
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There were used syringes and empty stamp bags, or wax-coated bags often used to hold heroin.
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"Hepatitis B is mainly transmitted either through unsterilized needles or syringes ... or by sexual activity," he said.
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In the bedroom were flatscreen TVs and a sofa littered with injectable testosterone, syringes, antibiotics and condoms.
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Alcohol was banned but pain killers and syringes used by jihadist fighters before and after battle remain.
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Even providing clean syringes to drug addicts to help prevent the spread of AIDS was frowned upon.
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One after the other, Dr. Green went through the syringes until none were left on the table.
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The company expects to begin selling the pre-filled syringes in the second half of this year.
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Deputies saw drug paraphernalia including 24 syringes and five glass pipes in Buck's home, court papers said.
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Within moments a team member arrived with a small cooler containing syringes and doses of the vaccine.
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Within moments a team member arrived with a small cooler containing syringes and doses of the vaccine.
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"There were face masks, syringes, gloves, the things that you use in an operating room," she said.
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Armed with cotton balls and syringes, the Zendesk team has come to effect a small, back-channel undo.
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During that monthlong inspection, Guardian voluntarily recalled 180 syringes filled with an anesthetic due to reported contamination problems.
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Dr. Ghanghro, in an interview with the Times last week, denied accusations that he reused syringes and needles.
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One morning Clifton Beach, a tourist attraction known for camel rides, was strewn with medical waste and syringes.
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Skiing or snowboarding sounds like about as much fun as jumping on a trampoline made out of syringes.
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Hepatitis is spread through injecting drug use and unsafe use of syringes in hospitals, as well as sexually.
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She cheerfully offers plastic bags full of clean syringes to Russians dashing into and out of the store.
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Similar centers have been found to reduce the spread of infectious disease, overdose deaths and improperly discarded syringes.
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The doctor has denied reusing syringes, which is illegal in Pakistan, but the medical malpractice investigation remains ongoing.
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In our bags, we had all kinds of different tools: scalpels, syringes, solvents, and a variety of knives.
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Naloxone is currently distributed in Denmark via syringes, but the country is implementing pilot nasal naloxone spray programmes.
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They swept needles off their steps, and they took their plants inside because the pots filled with syringes.
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Dry ice makes an appearance, as do squeezable syringes, for injecting various chutneys into molded drums of paneer.
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Eventually, they traced the source to syringes of hydromorphone, a potent opioid used for moderate to severe pain.
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But soon stray pills were tucked into sofa cushions and syringes were rattling at the back of drawers.
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During that time, the program provided sterile needles to people and offered a place to safely discard syringes.
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Needle exchanges not only provide a place where people can obtain syringes for drug use or dispose them.
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During Tuesday's stage, several syringes were seen alongside the course route in apparent protest by anti-Froome spectators.
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Used syringes are hazardous medical waste and should be disposed of accordingly; never put them in the garbage.
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For this project, the end result was a compact device that can hold four different sizes of syringes.
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Upon it was one of Dr. Green's blue boxes, and eight syringes lined up neatly in a row.
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In poorer areas of the country, some providers reuse syringes in order to cut corners and save money.
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She came across photos of babies surrounded by syringes and decided to save the needles from each injection.
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My body rejected the heroin but day after day I kept spearing myself with syringes, determined to get high.
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According to the Indiana State Department of Health, 82 percent of syringes distributed by the programs have been returned.
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Much of the blame initially fell on a single pediatrician, Muzaffar Ghanghro, who is said to have reused syringes.
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They are also billed for glucose monitors, lancets, lancet devices, test strips, pumps, insulin coolers, syringes and other supplies.
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And when I turned on the shower light, we found bloodstained towels, used syringes, and a big, broken dildo.
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"Can I have some twos and threes?" one of the visitors asks, referring to 2- and 3-milligram syringes.
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Drugs, but no arrest So far the department has seen paraphernalia, syringes, cookers, pipes and injection "rigs" turned in.
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"We believe that Becton benefits from a distinct scale advantage in its core needles and syringes business," Schoenstein said.
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In Chapo's downstairs bedroom, there were flatscreen TVs and a sofa littered with injectable testosterone, syringes, antibiotics and condoms.
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Plumbers frequently are summoned to fix public restroom pipes clogged with discarded syringes, he said in a phone interview.
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And Indiana was among nearly two dozen states to criminalize the distribution or possession of syringes without a prescription.
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The president pointed to used syringes and the city's homeless population as the main culprits of the alleged infractions.
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Here in Florida, Palm Beach County is the only area that allows pharmacies to sell syringes without a prescription.
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During and after high school, Angelica assembled medical syringes, made newsprint, and prepared tortilla chips in an assembly line.
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Santa Ana's core concern, meanwhile, was that the needle exchange there led to more syringes discarded in public spaces.
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Wearing a rainbow swaddle, the 2-week-old is encircled with hundreds of syringes showing her parents' IVF struggles.
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It took Packer more than an hour to meticulously lay out the syringes all pointing in the same direction.
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The death was ruled an accident, although Moore was in a living room littered with syringes and sex toys.
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Critics of needle exchanges argue the programs increase illegal drug use by expanding access to syringes used for drugs.
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With no tubes of blood or syringes needed, Holmes envisioned a world where average Americans could control their own health.
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London Road, once awash with syringes and condoms, is now peaceful, with residents no longer disturbed outside their front doors.
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If one of these winged syringes bites an infected human and then bites a non-infected human, the disease spreads.
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The first three sheds seized by the city contained 100 syringes, 30 drug paraphernalia items, and a gun, Stern said.
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Nearly 900 children in a small Pakistani city tested positive for H.I.V. Health workers pointed to the reuse of syringes.
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Health officials initially said a single pediatrician who was accused of reusing syringes was to blame, according to The Times.
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It was the first time in over a year that we went anywhere without packing the pump, syringes and tube.
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Knoer said his clinics have kits with syringes and Epinephrine administered by trained nurses to help to keep cost low.
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Syringes left by drug users amid the heroin crisis are turning up everywhere, AP's Michael Casey reports from Lowell, Mass.
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Adding to the danger in San Francisco are thousands of used syringes dumped by junkies and left littering the streets.
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Despite its strong association with spoons and syringes, there are many ways to use heroin, including snorting or smoking it.
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The reality star was with a female passenger, whom officers reportedly saw placing a bag of syringes into her purse.
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She used four syringes of Juvéderm [each costs $649 at Urban Skin Solutions] and I could see the results instantly.
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The 2204 mg syringes of the blood thinner Enoxaparin are used by patients for weeks before and after heart surgery.
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Despite significant progress in expanding access to naloxone and clean syringes, in many states, they're still hard to come by.
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This means that addicts can learn to take actions to improve our health, like using clean syringes, as I did.
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Bowls of rice near hospital beds collecting mold, syringes covered the blood-spattered floors, dirty dishes spilled out of sinks.
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That climb in price has prompted some to make their own epinephrine shots by purchasing vials of epinephrine and syringes.
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He hesitated — his concern not the syringes needed to inject it, but rather not having a refrigerator to store it.
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When the police searched my apartment, they found two used EPO syringes I'd used for the Worlds the year before.
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The HHS draft report concluded that the US doesn't have the capacity to manufacture personal protective equipment, needles and syringes.
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Syringes have been swapped out with insulin pumps, and finger pricks have been replaced with sensors embedded under the skin.
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Syringes, like other supplies, are limited and zero gravity has an effect on liquids as they are drawn from containers.
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The affidavit also said police found a backpack in the home with syringes and substances that tested positive for methamphetamine.
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Poland has needle exchanges, but under its present conservative government, the number of syringes distributed mysteriously dropped by half in 2016.
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With medical supply sales strictly controlled, every practitioner needs a good bladerunner: a scrappy youth who fences pills, syringes, and scalpels.
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I forgot that the cup normally filled with water had been filled with bleach earlier in the day to clean syringes.
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Syringes at Victor's place go from one arm to the next, and the drug is at times intentionally diluted with blood.
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All this is before taking into account the nastier features of Bay Area life: clogged traffic, discarded syringes and shocking inequality.
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The established presence of the auto-disable syringes in the market is one of the crucial reasons for its high share.
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Needle exchanges, where users can pick up sterile syringes and trade in used needles, have a lot of evidence behind them.
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That same day, Jones ordered the mass suicide—those who didn't drink the poison willingly were stabbed with syringes of cyanide.
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People who have severe allergic reactions often carry "epi-pens," highlighter-sized syringes that can deliver fast, easy injections of epinephrine.
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The company admitted that Medical Initiatives illegally dispensed syringes based on order forms that were not prescriptions signed by medical practitioners.
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Adamis, which received U.S. approval for its emergency epinephrine syringes in 2017, distributes Symjepi in the United States exclusively through Sandoz.
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A swarm of undulating angels hovers above a mountain of syringes in an expressionistic composition of deep reds and cornfield yellows.
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His team rescued four boxes of the syringes from destruction, including 75 atropine, 15 dextrose, 164 epinephrine and 22 sodium bicarbonate.
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She decided that she could no longer use the syringes she had been using and needed to get a clean supply.
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In my shock, I didn't see the half-filled syringes on the bathroom sink, or the spoon, lighter and crushed pills.
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The one she settled on is generally marketed for use with insulin syringes, but can also be used for many medications.
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He kept a duffle bag with rope, a bungee cord, duct tape, syringes, zip ties, and a surgical glove in his room.
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Users bring their soiled needles back in disposal containers that are not transparent, so you can't tell how many syringes are inside.
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When officials eventually cleared the encampment in March, they reportedly found more than 13,000 used syringes and 5,000 pounds of human waste.
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Among the dead were 304 children, including those who ingested the laced mixture by force — their parents squirting syringes down their throats.
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In 1992, when PPP opened its doors, nearly half of all HIV infections in Philadelphia were among people who shared used syringes.
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Adamis, which received U.S. approval for its emergency epinephrine syringes in 2017, will distribute SYMJEPI in the United States exclusively through Sandoz.
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In 2005, they published a study showing that Insite visitors shared syringes at substantially lower rates than the rest of the community.
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Mr. Clere, a Republican known for bucking party leaders, began drafting an amendment to allow the distribution of clean syringes in Indiana.
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I'm pretty squeamish, so my husband was in charge of mixing the potions, prepping the syringes, and inserting them into my belly.
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He chose to save all of the syringes and bottles from his treatment, and just created this staggering image out of it.
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Booty Baby"—waves syringes above her passed-out patient, while rapping about how her clients are "building up fat in their booties.
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Seattle is expected to place its facilities at locations where users can already access rehab programs, clean syringes, and basic health care.
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They don't increase trafficking or crime in the surrounding neighborhoods — their neighborhoods, in fact, saw less public injecting and fewer dropped syringes.
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They knew they wanted a photo of their baby that included all the syringes that it took to get to this point.
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For example, participating emergency medical workers in New York State are given syringes, which can be filled with epinephrine on the spot.
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Specialty drinks were also flowing — including margaritas served in syringes which Kendall seemed to enjoy and a floating-eye cocktail which Kylie held.
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After the reuse of syringes infected hundreds of children in a small city, health workers say the entire system needs to be revamped.
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"In our area, we have a very big opioid crisis and there's a problem with people leaving around syringes," she told Fox News.
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Discarded syringes are seen in an open-air heroin market that has thrived for decades outside the heart of Philadelphia, July 31, 2017.
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Last year, Prevention Point Philadelphia handed out more than 2.8 million syringes to people who inject drugs—and it's made a huge difference.
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Aside from the monetary cost of the syringes – over $500,000 – the needle giveaway failed to get rid of the problem it was targeting.
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The patch also could reduce the need for bins to dispose of syringes and for a cold chain to store vaccines, she said.
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These local programs, typically run by people with direct drug-using experience, often give naloxone kits out for free, along with sterile syringes.
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No other medical specialty has easier access to potent opioids and equipment (needles, syringes), as well as a greater expertise of IV insertion.
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On the World Cup circuit, in friendlier climes, course workers replicate these conditions by injecting water into the snow—with hoses, not syringes.
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Emergency medical services in some cities are now using syringes and epinephrine vials, which cost much less but can be harder to use.
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The hospital does do emergency C-sections, but only if the patient provides a kit with all supplies — gloves, sutures, gowns and syringes.
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"The levy will not be applied to syringes, medical devices and packaging of medicinal products, it's really a good result," Stefano told Reuters.
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Discarded syringes have become a significant concern for the town's residents, who worry that the needles pose a threat to children and tourists.
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Coblentz got to work on a special spherification station to test in zero g—basically a plexiglass glove box equipped with preloaded syringes.
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Moore, 26, was found naked except for his socks on a mattress in Buck's Hollywood Hills apartment, surrounded by syringes and sex toys.
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The company did not disclose the price for a pair of Symjepi syringes, but the product was expected to cost less than EpiPen.
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Activists praised the move as an effective end to the ban, since the syringes are a very inexpensive part of needle exchange programs.
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Documents confirm that the woman said Clark tried to impregnate her with syringes filled with sperm from Clark's boyfriend, which was retrieved from condoms.
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A week after arriving in the U.S., the woman said Clark started trying to inseminate her with syringes containing sperm retrieved from expended condoms.
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Infections could occur if micro-needling tips or syringes were reused, or if another patient's blood was used to perform the facial, for instance.
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In addition to their magical syringes, Medics come packing health-restoring tools that can benefit any teammate, whether or not they're on your squad.
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I had enough syringes of blood extracted to sufficiently cure my fear of needles for good, but still the doctors couldn't pinpoint a problem.
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In his apartment, Buck allegedly prepared syringes with meth and injected some of the victims with or without their consent, according to the indictment.
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After our enlightening conversation and shared Google searches, Dr. Cardiel filled up a half dozen syringes with a cocktail of steroids and numbing agents.
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In late 2015, a measure was snuck into spending package again removing the ban—but it allowed funding for everything except the syringes themselves.
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Ed Gainey has been working to undo that bias against SSPs by introducing HB 196, which removes syringes from the definition of drug paraphernalia.
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The tech, who's tested positive for Hepatitis B, would allegedly inject himself with syringes of fentanyl, fill them with saline and put them back.
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Supplies arrived to bolster their effort with unusual speed: water, bandages, syringes, food, and even ironing boards—to be used as stretchers—were everywhere.
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We're told some potential buyers claim to have seen what looked like needles or syringes among the items strewn around one of the bedrooms.
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Cops were called, and they observed a passenger in the car trying to hide several syringes in a large Ziploc bag in her purse.
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Expanding access to addiction treatment programs and to sterile syringes is essential to preventing HIV and hepatitis C transmissions among people who inject drugs.
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Patients would draw doses of epinephrine from a vial and then keep a few loaded syringes in the refrigerator and take one with them.
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Those carriers can then unwittingly infect their sexual partners or, in the case of drug users, individuals with whom they share needles or syringes.
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The recalled products make up about 10 percent of the company's supply of heparin and flush syringes in the countries involved in the recall.
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At its regular sidewalk locations, her group distributes clean syringes, paraphernalia, condoms and naloxone, a drug that counters the effects of an opioid overdose.
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It's definitely the most painless thing I've had to put in my body in the 224 years of using syringes, insulin pens and pumps.
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A duffel bag in the apartment contained duct tape, a surgical glove, rope, zip ties, a black bungee cord, and syringes, according to CTV.
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Three times per week, for over a decade, Shirley had taken one of the pre-filled syringes from her refrigerator and injected her thighs.
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This was a factor in the disagreement between the district and the Watkins family, who wanted to be responsible for filling the syringes themselves.
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Medical supplies as basic as syringes and gloves have run out, he said, and during particularly busy periods, patient gurneys line up in hallways.
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Or was it simply, as she says, some confusion about the vials of seawater she carried everywhere, which catty co-workers mistook for syringes?
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The operation employed at least 10 people, the police said, who were paid $20 an hour to use syringes to fill cartridges with oil.
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He targeted Speaker Nancy Pelosi, noting that "her district is filthy dirty," filled with syringes and cautioned her to spend more time at home.
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That could occur if micro-needling tips or syringes were reused, or if another patient's blood was used to perform the facial, for instance.
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There is hardly any concept of infection control, and the reuse of syringes and needles at blood-stained preparation counters is a common sight.
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Some bought cheap syringes filled with epinephrine, the medication in EpiPens; others made homemade auto-injectors, following the steps in a popular YouTube video.
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Farmacy's medicinal-nutritional ethos extends from its apothecary-style green-striped awning to the health-boosting shots that arrive at your table in syringes.
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Practical issues need further investigation, though, including obtaining suitable syringes to administer the vaccine, which is injected into a muscle or just under the skin.
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But hospital administrators are an obvious place to start, he said, as Amazon is already selling them medical supplies ranging from bed pans to syringes.
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Among the dead were 304 children, including ones whose parents forced cyanide-filled syringes into the mouths of those too young to sip from cups.
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Injectable naloxone, which can come in syringes or in "auto-injectors," is a muscle shot and can be injected into the thigh, buttocks or arms.
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But it's accomplished through a combination of sparkling magic wands and giant syringes, which are treated as interchangeable, despite their very different connotations to adults.
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Police also found syringes and a bottle of insulin in the Motel 6 room where he was found in the San Fernando Valley last summer.
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He documented the procedure on YouTube — an astounding self-injection of 35 syringes' worth of material, which is 34 more than most people start with.
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But some of the Middle East's largest factories still lie idle—everything from steel and paper mills to factories that made syringes, textiles and more.
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And, no matter the health literacy level or language spoken, more errors were seen with cups than syringes, especially when it came to smaller doses.
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Art group Luzinterruptus, known for their guerilla activist installations such as LED-enabled syringes, decided to turn last year's "Consumerist Christmas Tree" into a tradition.
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"The waste generated (three syringes times thousands and thousands of orders) over the 10 day fair run is absurd," Holtz wrote in his petition page.
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They also allegedly found lubricant and sex toys along with a handgun, syringes, insulin, gloves, and Viagra in a toolbox, the court official tells PEOPLE.
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The CDC told the caller that syringes could be submitted to local, county or state health department for testing but nothing was submitted for testing.
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Authorities broke down the apartment door and caught Guo with condoms, a ski mask, military tear gas and syringes filled with sedatives, according to prosecutors.
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He can no longer eat; I watched Izzy feed him lunch by pushing several syringes full of liquified food into a tube in his stomach.
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But increasingly, drug manufacturers are taking steps to ensure that their formulations do not wind up in syringes used for lethal injections of condemned prisoners.
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There would be vials of the drug (or a placebo) in my refrigerator, syringes in my kitchen cupboard, a sharps container on the kitchen counter.
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Front line workers told VICE they're maneuvering around clutter and garbage, fire hazards, and sometimes piles of used syringes just to get to overdose victims.
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A paucity of refrigeration and syringes has hampered vaccination efforts, and the lack of labs makes it hard to track the spread of the disease.
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Its employees had already done volunteer work with a local nonprofit organization, distributing clean syringes to local drug users to prevent the spread of AIDS.
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I volunteer with the Needle Exchange Emergency Distribution to distribute naloxone, clean syringes and other harm reduction supplies to clients in the East Bay area.
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"My wife and I had been trying to conceive at home, using turkey basters and needle-less syringes, and were feeling very discouraged," Berman said.
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Investigators discovered a duffle bag containing duct tape, rope, zip ties, a bungee cord, syringes, and a surgical glove, during their search of McArthur's bedroom.
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A year later, the Norwegian Pharmacy Association disclosed that, in Norway alone, several thousand syringes had been distributed to individuals seeking to inject the peptide.
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America hated the Yankees so much that nobody cared when David Ortiz would step into a batter's box with syringes in his arms every year.
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It's not uncommon to spot young, mostly white employees of tech giants stepping over used syringes and human feces on their way to the office.
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San Francisco exchanges are open daily and for longer hours, which gives people in the city a more consistent place to drop off used syringes.
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The average globe-trotting traveler does not need I.V. bags and syringes, she said, though the items are suggested for those trekking in rural areas.
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Another projector shows a giant image of two metal syringes about to touch tip-to-tip — Leeson's play on Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel fresco depicting Creation.
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The males of this species also had two modified appendages called pedipalps near their heads that were used like syringes to deliver sperm to females.
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They also presented as evidence vials of potassium chloride and syringes found by the state police at a house where Mr. Majors had once lived.
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"There is no political will to face the truth," said Maksim Malyshev, who distributes clean syringes to drug users with the government-blacklisted Rylkov Foundation.
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The IV team made syringes of each drug, and still, no one noticed that the drug meant to stop his heart was the wrong one.
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Health records were found among rotting food, hundreds of empty soda cans and protein shake bottles, and medical supplies, including loose syringes, reported the Indianapolis Star.
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The simplest use syringes to extrude a mixture of cells and a printing medium, a method similar to that used by a desktop printer in plastic.
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But he has not yet been convicted, and in an interview with The New York Times, he insisted he is innocent and has never reused syringes.
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"Despite a history of drug addiction, (Swedish) hired Allen…and allowed Allen access to operating rooms and syringes containing fentanyl and other narcotics," the suit said.
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They also faulted the unit for illegally shipping pre-filled syringes that contained drugs for patients in chemotherapy, and which were prepared in an unsterile environment.
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Rylkov Foundation worker Maksim Malishev gives each visitor plastic bags full of syringes, bandages, ointments and doses of naloxone, a medication that can counteract opioid overdose.
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Kabambi said some 1.08 million vaccine doses had arrived in Kinshasa in recent days, but declined to say when he thought more syringes might be delivered.
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Mylan NV, the maker of emergency epinephrine injectors EpiPen, is facing investigations after it doubled the cost of its syringes used to treat severe allergic reactions.
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Not everyone knows the risks of sharing syringes or drug preparation equipment, which includes a container of water to dilute the drugs, cotton, and water itself.
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The raid followed last month's seizure of a box containing used syringes, drug ampoules and IBU event accreditations at a petrol station near the Italian border.
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The company also admitted in the September filing that Medical Initiatives illegally dispensed syringes based on order forms that were not prescriptions signed by medical practitioners.
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Health officials said they began testing the Becton Dickinson products when their investigation found the syringes had been used to treat several of the infected children.
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Customs officials have ramped up inspections of scrap metal for circuit boards, plastic for syringes and other medical waste, and waste paper for plastic or wood.
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I suppose I'd find it funny too if the tender nuts being stabbed with syringes full of botulinum—an acutely lethal toxin—weren't attached to me.
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The company is not currently distributing prefilled syringes "to ensure patient safety," it said, because of problems with a third-party supplier it declined to name.
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Scott and Keam, who were friends from a gym nearby, had used the syringes they hid in the store to inject themselves with steroids, MailOnline reported.
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They hid syringes and needles in food items in the store seven times over the course of five months between July and December 2018, police said.
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" The only other vaccine maker, GlaxoSmithKline, said it has adult hepatitis A vaccine in prefilled syringes in stock and is "working diligently to increase our supply.
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Congress agreed to allocate federal money to staffing and equipping harm-reduction facilities, but stopped short of agreeing to those funds being used for fresh syringes.
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Bridalplasty's opening credits show Dubrow hammering a silver pick into a woman's nose cartilage, pummelling thigh fat with syringes, and forcing silicon implants into torn flesh.
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By the end of the program, Augustine said, it actually disposed of more syringes than it gave out from week to week because of these measures.
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The 53% rise in cargo movements is compared to the usual weekly average, and is likely to include imports of medicines, vaccines, sanitisers, syringes and respirators.
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At a United Nations meeting about the outbreak on Monday, one official said he had seen syringes and gloves being reused because equipment was becoming scarce.
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The city council voted to support a plan that would allow one supervised injection site with clean syringes, overdose prevention, mental health services, and social services.
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Whatever was in those syringes—old blood, straight up dirt, infectious bacteria—was nothing that should have ever been pushed through a needle into our veins.
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One recent evening, three outreach workers from CRESCER, a charity that helps drug users, trudged up a hillside carrying bags of clean syringes, saline solution and pastries.
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Needle exchange programs could let people trade in used syringes for new ones, reducing the risk a needle will carry HIV, hepatitis C, or some other disease.
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Unregulated clinics were continuing to operate, he said, and used syringes are frequently repackaged to sell as new, although they are supposed to be incinerated after use.
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When syringes pump preprogrammed volumes of water at specific intervals, water rushes through the little channels inside each of the robots — making them grab, kick, or swim.
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I wondered if we were pushing too hard because the feeding tube — with its formula to blend, syringes to clean, equipment sure to malfunction at 1 a.m.
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As long as we're talking about hospitals, for example, let's look at their suppliers: One company controls 64% of the market for syringes, according to OMI's data.
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Learning new habits Spinner agreed with the recommendation to dispense medications with syringes, though he believes it is even more important that dosages be expressed in milliliters.
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Across the country, nursing homes routinely toss large quantities of perfectly good prescription medication: tablets for diabetes, syringes of blood thinners, pricey pills for psychosis and seizures.
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Rather than the usual artist's materials, Pollock used resin-based paints from a hardware store applied with dry brushes, sticks and other nontraditional instruments, like basting syringes.
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She's surrounded by medical equipment—stools, trolleys, swabs, syringes, with super-bright surgical lamps suspended above the bed and her vital signs displayed on monitors just behind.
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The shortages involve prefilled syringes of these drugs, as well as small ampules and vials of liquid medication that can be added to bags of intravenous fluids.
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Circle of Health collected 4,000 pounds of maternal healthcare supplies, including syringes, tubing, gauze, speculums, gowns, pads and diapers, and sent them to midwives on the island.
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RUMSEY TAYLOR The narrative of the opioid crisis has a familiar visual vernacular: track-covered arms, empty syringes, the translucent amber cylinder of an empty pill container.
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To help prevent overdoses, the project distributes clean syringes, addiction medications like naloxone and Narcan, snacks and water bottles to programs working directly with people without housing.
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To help prevent overdoses, the project distributes clean syringes, addiction medications like naloxone and Narcan, snacks and water bottles to programs working directly with people without housing.
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She said Salazar told her that the AndroGel was for his heart condition and that the syringes were for the asthma medication of a teammate, Galen Rupp.
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The second was linked to a dialysis center in 2016, while a third one earlier this year was due to the reuse of syringes and intravenous drips.
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Several Democrats explicitly back expanding access to naloxone, and fewer explicitly support more needle exchanges, where people can pick up sterile syringes to avoid needle-based infections.
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They also argued that they have taken steps, including limiting how many syringes people can obtain and conducting clean-up sweeps, to try to minimize needle litter.
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By that point, other generic options — auto-injectors and single-use syringes alike— could be there to set the tone for the next back-to-school season.
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Pakistan: A pediatrician accused of reusing syringes and infecting scores of children with H.I.V. is now practicing in a government-run hospital after his private clinic was shuttered.
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The same week that the videos were uploaded to YouTube showing open drug use in the BART station, Farrell announced plans aimed at getting syringes off the streets.
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Inside the minivan, investigators allegedly found a gun, handcuffs, chains, rope, syringes, a mask, rubber gloves photographs of women who had been bound and chained, according to authorities.
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Ex-Faith No More singer Chuck Mosley died of a heroin overdose -- at least that's what cops suspect after finding syringes next to his body, TMZ has learned.
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Star, 33, revealed that 10 years ago, a doctor injected him with "allegedly two syringes" of silicone in his top and bottom lip without his knowledge or consent.
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On the elliptical glass coffee table in front of him is a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and a tray holding a glass of water, several vials, and syringes.
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The hospital alerted Pharmakon after an employee noticed syringes with conflicting labels, including one that indicated the medicine was twice as strong than what the hospital had ordered.
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Chris, 29Photographer, Heidelberg I'd probably never take heroin or any drugs you'd inject, the whole process of looking for your veins and organising syringes is way too hardcore.
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According to the study, several programs in the United States that distribute clean syringes to people who use drugs have started to distribute fentanyl test strips, as well.
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Just before last year's French Open, the cover of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo featured a musclebound tennis player with a headband like Nadal's stuck with syringes.
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In 2009, a BBC report tracking just six needle exchanges found that hundreds of individuals had visited these exchanges in order to receive syringes for Melanotan II use.
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Meanwhile, former medical technician David Kwiatkowski was sentenced to 39 years in 2013 after he stole syringes of the painkiller fentanyl, injected himself, and refilled them with saline.
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By the time he was caught stealing drugs, his locker and home were littered with drug paraphernalia and his white coat was stained with blood from used syringes.
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Needle exchange programs could let people trade in used syringes for new ones, reducing the risk that a needle will carry HIV, hepatitis C, or some other disease.
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Programs where drug users can turn in used needles for sterile syringes were also unable to receive federal funding when most cities — San Francisco included — rolled them out.
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Mounds of plastic and Styrofoam pile up on Guatemala's beaches, filled with everything from the expected soda bottle to combs, toothbrushes, Crocs, action figures, syringes, and IV bags.
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Nuovawhite is a complete whitening system with enough goods for two people: two sets of custom trays, blue LED accelerator lights, and FDA-compliant hydrogen peroxide whitening syringes.
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The shortages involve pre-filled syringes of these drugs, as well as small ampules and vials of liquid medication that can be added to bags of intravenous fluids.
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In at least a dozen states, pilot programs are either underway or being explored for emergency medical technicians to replace the EpiPens they carry with reusable syringes kits.
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Opponents of medicalized executions say that using facets of medicine (syringes, white coats, gurneys) simply serves to legitimize a practice that most other developed nations abandoned long ago.
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Typically, needle exchanges give people who use drugs new, sterile syringes (to avoid infection from reused needles), and may refer people to treatment and provide other health care services.
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The machines will dole out packages of 10 needles (or syringes), along with a disposing container, bandages, addiction treatment pamphlets, a tourniquet and alcohol swabs, according to CBS News.
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For Ink In Motion, the Macro Room team placed a medium-sized aquarium atop a light box and used thin syringes to dispense clouds of ink into the water.
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Vaccinations started in Angola on Monday and about 41,000 health workers have been deployed across more than 8,000 sites with 17.3 million syringes available regionally, WHO said on Tuesday.
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The county has seen a huge increase in the number of cases of hepatitis C and hepatitis B, which are often transmitted through sharing of syringes or bodily fluids.
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Twenty-five tense minutes elapse before the cream has numbed me completely, allowing Mesa to begin administering the shots from ten or so syringes lined up on a table.
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Before they leave, the outreach workers offer advice on how to stay safe while injecting drugs, then offer the man kits containing sterile needles, syringes, alcohol swabs and condoms.
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Plastic bottles help transport clean drinking water to remote areas, lightweight composites help save energy in automobiles and planes, single-use sterile syringes and blood bags help extend lives.
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Further investigation revealed that one nurse had repeatedly accessed a medicine drawer when she wasn't supposed to, and testing showed the contents of the syringes had been watered down.
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Ms. Schrallhammer, the maid, later testified that she had found a small black bag containing syringes, yellow paste and white powder in a closet in Mr. von Bülow's study.
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But probably not the 300 block of Hyde Street in the Tenderloin district, where syringes, trash and human waste swamp the sidewalks and open-air drug sales are commonplace.
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The floats, which look like human-sized yellow syringes, autonomously nose-dive thousands of meters into the abyss and then resurface, measuring water temperature and salinity along the way.
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They did this openly, on the sidewalk, probably utilizing free syringes the city distributes to discourage drug abusers from spreading AIDS, hepatitis and other diseases by sharing dirty needles.
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People were being turned away at some health centers in Minas Gerais and in the southeastern state Sao Paulo because vaccines and syringes had run out, Brazilian media reported.
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The governor also wants to pass other H.I.V.-related legislation this session, including laws that would extend the recommended age for H.I.V. testing past 64 and increase access to syringes.
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She nodded in agreement, but explained that taking me beyond two full syringes of Restylane-L would make my lips look out of proportion in relation to my other features.
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Ali advised patients interested in vampire facials make sure they see practitioners opening new syringes to draw blood, as well as changing the micro-needling pen before performing the procedure.
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But the research suggests, according to the EMCDDA, that these facilities lead to less public injecting and fewer syringes discarded in the area — both of which can benefit local communities.
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Police found a wide array of pills and supplements in his apartment, and took around 50 different items into evidence, along with some syringes that were in his bedroom closet.
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Furthermore, high investments to improve the patient care services and to curb the risk of needle stick infections are expected to spur the smart syringes market over the forecast period.
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To counter the outbreak, the Pakistani authorities in May began shutting down the clinics of unqualified doctors and illegal blood banks — many of which were found to be reusing syringes.
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His set of rooms in the backstreets of Rawalpindi were full of medicines he was not qualified to prescribe and syringes he was not trained to use, said Dr Asghar.
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"They've always had a fascination with medical matters, and being involved in healthcare may give them access to drugs and syringes they can use to sicken their child," he says.
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Yin and her co-authors concluded there would be a significant reduction in errors based on just one change: advising parents to use only oral syringes rather than dosing cups.
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With a $23 million budget, Glide provides an estimated 750,000 free meals, 815,000 syringes, emergency shelter for 8,700 people, and day care and afterschool programs for 450 children each year.
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Gland Pharma, based in the southern India city of Hyderabad, makes injectables – widely-used medicines administered through vials, syringes, bags and pumps, which are harder to manufacture than regular medicines.
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At the event, guests were treated to margaritas served in syringes and penne with creamy blood sauce while the theme to John Carpenter's 1978 film Halloween played in the background.
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Francis's factory, with its white-washed clean rooms, towering freezers, robots, conveyors and 100 green jumper-clad workers, was erected to fill 18,000 syringes per hour, 10 million per year.
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The drug comes in two types, a nasal spray and a less-expensive injectable, and the latter can also run into legal barriers related to mailing syringes in some states.
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The corporation also reportedly violated state laws by disposing of medical waste, including syringes, over-the-counter and prescribed pharmaceuticals, and confidential medical information about its customers, in the landfills.
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Investigators later found syringes in the bucket, along with a fatigue-fighting agent known in racing parlance as a milkshake, according to hearing transcripts from the state's Horse Racing Board.
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" She describes a national shortfall of essential equipment: "We're running out of syringes, diagnostic test kits, gloves, respirators, antiseptics, all the stuff we need to treat patients and protect ourselves.
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" She describes a national shortfall of essential equipment: "We're running out of syringes, diagnostic test kits, gloves, respirators, antiseptics, all the stuff we need to treat patients and protect ourselves.
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The virus spreads between humans through direct contact with an infected person's bodily fluids, including blood, feces or vomit, or direct contact with contaminated objects, such as needles and syringes.
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The manufacturing and distribution chains for drugs and other vital products like needles and syringes must remain open, and that, given the global nature of the industry, requires international cooperation.
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The mattress, my only furniture, was held together with electrical tape, which covered the perforations made by syringes and corkscrews and smoldering cigarettes that often fell into bed with me.
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For example, the hypodermic needles used to create the blood splatters in pieces like "Untitled Remains" (2018) are automated, programmed versions of the syringes he last used 15 years ago.
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Instead, some local health departments in Indiana have resorted to distributing so-called harm reduction kits that include everything but syringes, such as sterile supplies to cook, snort and smoke narcotics.
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There has been a dramatic gain in the number of syringes found in parks in the Bronx in recent years because of the ongoing opioid epidemic, city Health Department officials say.
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Fillerina's Lip Plump boasts a patented blend of six hyaluronic acid molecules developed for the delicate skin on the lips, to diminish fine lines and increase volume without resorting to syringes.
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SIFs offer sterile syringes, skin-cleansing products, and a brightly lit space; they have medical staff that can respond to an overdose and administer naloxone, the antidote to an opioid overdose.
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For a shipping test, a precise number of the mosquitoes were packed into 10-millilitre syringes, of which the plungers were then compressed to the 1-millilitre mark (1 cubic centimetre).
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It's noisy, the medics and translators are scrambling around grabbing syringes and pills, bags of saline solution, jotting down information on clipboards, barking staccato orders hard for the layman to understand.
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In a statement to the Tribune, a Health Department spokesperson made it sound like Meanley was offering his customers a smoothie made from used syringes, unpasteurized milk, and his own saliva.
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Ms. Malik's son, Nauman, carried 000 vials of the vaccine and a set of syringes in his backpack when he and his mother flew into Los Angeles from Cuba in June.
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Emergency responders were called to an all-too-familiar scene in Pennsylvania on Sunday: They found empty packets of heroin, spoons and half-full syringes, and two men dead from overdoses.
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In an interview, she recounted some of the efforts so far to address the drug problem: outreach, a needle exchange program and cleanup crews that collect thousands of syringes a month.
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We talked about H.I.V.; they were especially interested in how long it lingered on razor blades or porcupine quills, which were their syringes — they cut patients' scalps and rubbed herbs in.
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Many people are going to find ways to use drugs no matter what, and providing them with clean syringes at least eliminates some of the risk tied to that drug use.
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In addition to an array of technical equipment, including walkie-talkies, tasers and jammers, they were carrying syringes, staplers and a "sharp object that looked like a scalpel," the newspaper reported.
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By the time I gave myself my first shot in the stomach, our living room resembled a science lab, with glass bottles of hormones and a red tub for discarded syringes.
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As a result, he ordered fewer syringes and fillings last week from Benco Dental, a family-owned company based in Luzerne County, Pa., where 58 percent voted for the Republican, Donald.
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Trump's concern, he told reporters last week, has less to do with regulations on water infrastructure and more to do with unfounded fears that syringes are flowing into the Pacific Ocean.
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More research is also needed to see if low doses will work for young children, who may have a weaker immune response, and practical challenges remain over obtaining the right syringes.
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The syringes are free, but users must first register a swipe card by providing a birthdate and the first two letters of their first and last name—keeping things slightly anonymous.
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"The doctor has been made into a scapegoat for the larger crisis in the region," said Solangi, who says that there were no infected drips or syringes found in his client's clinic.
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The clinic is tidy: no sign, apart from covered bins full of spent syringes, of the 160 patients who come two or three times a day to receive and use pharmaceutical heroin.
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There were fewer errors, however, when labels contained both text and pictograms and when dosing cups or syringes were close to and at least as large as the amount of medication needed.
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Under a five-year agreement signed with Pfizer in 2015, Biovac only packaged labeled syringes but it is now acquiring the formulation and filling processes ahead of the new product line launch.
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Research shows that drug users who plan for the future—thinking about the week or weekend in advance—helps avoid withdrawal and helps users avoid having to share injection equipment or syringes.
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The company said it had won two new major contracts to make inhalers and prefillable syringes but lost a smaller order for inhalers as a result of restructuring at a Swiss plant.
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When her supply ran low, Caviness found expired insulin pens and used syringes to extract insulin and put it in her pump since she was unable to afford buying a new vial.
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Under a five-year agreement signed with Pfizer in 2015, Biovac only packaged labelled syringes but it is now acquiring the formulation and filling processes ahead of the new product line launch.
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The center operates on a harm-reduction model, offering clean syringes in addition to medical treatment, Narcan (overdose antidote) training, legal services, meals, and even mailboxes for people with no other address.
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A literal spitting distance from my stoop, you can catch a charter bus to Jacksonville, exchange your used syringes for new ones, or have countless palettes of vegetable oil delivered before sunrise.
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Meanwhile national newspapers like the Daily Express wrote articles claiming the McCanns were "hiding a big secret", as well as false claims of sleeping pills and syringes being found in their apartment.
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Baxter makes medical equipment like dialysis machines and infusion systems; Becton Dickinson makes supplies like needles, syringes and catheters; and Boston Scientific makes pacemakers and defibrillators, among other cardiovascular and endoscopic devices.
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Officials then traced a number of the children back to a single doctor in the area, and they began investigating whether he had used unsafe syringes, infecting children instead of protecting them.
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Some cities, such as New York and Washington, DC, are also experimenting with testing syringes from overdose sites or needle exchange centers to try and produce real-time information about dangerous drug locations.
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Used syringes could be seen lying in undergrowth behind public benches around the Law School on Wednesday, and people said trees and bushes in parks were often used as cover by drug users.
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After the first incident, the maid said she discovered a small black bag in Claus' closet and alerted Ala von Auersperg to its contents, which were revealed to be syringes, Seconal and Valium.
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She was very sweet and understanding and the next day she brought me a tin of biscuits shaped like syringes and thermometers and other medical things and said she was 'prescribing me cookies'.
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These sites have reduced the number of drug-related deaths, increased numbers of people seeking both drug treatment and medical care for other conditions, and decreased numbers of discarded syringes in public areas.
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It's clear that some activities, such as the sharing of syringes, present an unacceptable level of risk, but where does the consistent use of PrEP and condoms fall on the spectrum of risk?
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In a subsequent meeting with Health Minister Obediah Moyo, the doctors described shortages of painkillers and syringes and said nurses had to wash and re-use bandages, which increased the risk of infection.
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"The 9-metre long series of marble runs, test tubes, syringes and surgical implements helps us to visualize the amount the NHS spends on supporting us as patients throughout our lives," Wijesuriya said.
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The two will donate equipment for two wards at Lisbon's Santa Maria hospital, providing the wards with 10 beds each, ventilators, heart monitors, infusion pumps and syringes, the hospital said in a statement.
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If interested in a vampire facial, Ali advised that patients make sure they see practitioners opening new syringes to draw blood, as well as changing the micro-needling pen before performing the procedure.
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A wide effort to bring the outbreak under control by vaccinating more than 10 million people in DRC was due to start this week after delays due to shortages of vaccine and syringes.
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For decades, studies have repeatedly found that needle exchanges help prevent the spread of diseases, such as HIV and hepatitis C, that can spread through used syringes, while not increasing overall drug use.
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You can clean them, but VG residue is heartier than volume markings on cheap, plastic syringes and after a few washings you're left with a clear tube which is of no use to anyone.
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He said the syringes, which he referred to as push-dose pressors, were empty or just filled with water, and the unmarked pills were just vitamins and supplements that he had separated out himself.
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By 1990, it was already clear that places allowing over-the-counter sales of syringes without a prescription had far lower HIV rates—and that cities cracking down on needle access had deadlier epidemics.
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Called Symjepi, the new allergy shot also comes in two, single-dose syringes filled with the hormone epinephrine, which ends potentially life-threatening allergy attacks from bug bites, foods like nuts, and other medication.
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Also on the list of banned items: syringes, liquid medicines, kites, umbrellas, luggage deemed "too large and not suitable", large flags, sports rackets, roller skates and other "objects that could cause injury"...including frisbees.
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A readymade birdcage filled with medical paraphernalia, including empty bottles and syringes, transmits the weight of her illness through metaphor — the body is caged and under the control of the industry, unable to escape.
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Before I arrived on site, I went to buy medical supplies such as bandages, syringes and gloves, as well as toilet paper, sanitary towels and diapers that we were being told were desperately needed.
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This decline is due, in part, to the effectiveness and deployment of syringe services programs (SSPs) which offer people who use drugs access to sterile syringes and other services, including pathways to drug treatment.
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Two companies make 64 percent of American diapers, one company builds 52 percent of America's mobile homes, two companies produce 78 percent of its corn seeds, and one company assembles 103 percent of syringes.
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When the exchange kicks off, participants bring in old needles and drop them in collection bins by the door, receiving a ticket so they can receive the same number of clean syringes in return.
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Two men in the UK were sentence to prison for hiding syringes and needles supermarket food, which they has planted in items including a box of cereal, milk, and a packet of garlic bread.
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One prevention measure the commission did not embrace is expanding syringe exchange programs, which public health experts say save money and lives by reducing the spread of H.I.V. and hepatitis C with contaminated syringes.
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"If it was legal to have syringes everywhere, I could go make up 100 lunch bags and give them to people who need them," said Caitlin O'Neill with the New Jersey Harm Reduction Coalition.
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Since the program started in June 2018, the team has collected 275,000 used syringes left by intravenous-drug users in gutters and doorways; jammed in car tires; even stuck, birthday candle-like, in feces.
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"Syringes avoid the use of household spoons, known to be inaccurate," Dr. Ian Paul, a pediatrics researcher at Pennsylvania State College of Medicine in Hershey who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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Many of her canvases from the 1960s feature ominous swirls and splatters of paint in bloody red or oily black, with such unexpected objects as syringes, gun cartridges and doll eyes affixed to them.
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PATIENTS BEING TESTED FOR HIV AFTER NURSE REUSED SYRINGES What&aposs more, the researchers pinpointed a single gene, called KLRD1, that could serve as a proxy for a person&aposs levels of natural killer cells.
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MONROVIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The cries of young children ring around the hospital as hundreds of patients, packed tightly together on wooden benches and surrounded by boxes of syringes piled high, wait to be seen.
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The great proportion of Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B and HIV transmission cases aren't really coming from contaminated syringes, but rather from environmental contaminants that often live on surfaces and come into contact with sterile gear.
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The use of disposable syringes has been strongly advocated by various healthcare organizations across different countries; however, adherence to the patient safety guidelines is not adequately implemented in the LMIC (Low and Middle Income Countries).
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"So roll up your sleeves, Hollywood, because you're all getting flu shots," Oh excitedly announced, as Samberg joined in, before a large group of people wearing white lab coats and holding syringes appeared on stage.
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Congressional indignation was on display recently as House members grilled Mylan CEO Heather Bresch about price increases for her company's EpiPens, prefilled syringes that deliver a rescue drug for people suffering life-threatening allergic reactions.
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The wholesale price for a two-pack of adult-dose syringes is $250, Novartis said, below the $300 charged by Mylan for its authorized generic and for Teva's generic version of the EpiPen auto-injector.
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Botox syringes and plastic surgeons' scalpels are nothing new, but lately, it feels like we can't go to a cocktail party or call our mom without being asked to weigh in on dermaplaning and microneedling.
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Injecting eye drops The street corner where Alimova is conducting her outreach is a makeshift shooting gallery littered with used syringes and empty vials of an eye drop sold over-the-counter in the pharmacy.
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The federal government should continue to assist state and county efforts to make naloxone and clean syringes more widely available, and the FDA should accelerate efforts to approve an over-the-counter naloxone product. 10.
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NEXT is finding ways to work around this: For one, because the group is authorized by New York State as an Opioid Overdose Prevention Program (OOPP), sending naloxone and syringes is legal within the state.
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The siege has essentially strangled eastern Aleppo, where the shelves of once-bustling food markets are empty and people are reusing medical supplies that should be disposable, such as syringes, CNN correspondent Ian Lee reports.
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The New Health Care For decades, public health experts have known that syringe exchange programs reduce the spread of certain viral infections — like H.I.V., hepatitis B and hepatitis C — by removing contaminated syringes from circulation.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Coordinated police raids in 116 countries have netted 500 tons of illicit pharmaceuticals available online, including fake cancer medications, counterfeit pain pills and illegal medical syringes, the Interpol police organization said on Tuesday.
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At these sites, called safe consumption facilities, addicts would receive clean needles and syringes and would be permitted to inject heroin, smoke crack cocaine and take other addictive drugs under the supervision of trained authorities.
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Yet it was those syringes that ultimately saved me — without them, no doubt I'd have tried to lie my way out of the situation and continued on the downward spiral my life was already in.
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There is also a need to increase awareness among patients and communities about the risk of reusing syringes, as well as for men visiting barbers to ensure that new blades are used for shaving purposes.
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A Florida woman pleaded guilty to paying $3,000 to have a Mexican woman smuggled into the United States before holding her captive for two years and trying to impregnate her with syringes containing her boyfriend's sperm.
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Eleven people arrested by him claim the ex-deputy framed them, planting some combination of marijuana, methamphetamine, prescription pills or drug paraphernalia, including syringes and scales, in their vehicles after pulling them over for minor infractions.
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The Guardian wrote that while British health officials still say there is no broader threat to the public, they are still advising locals to avoid picking up objects such as "needles, syringes and unusual containers."[CNN]
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Diamond is one of a handful of plastic surgeons and cosmetic dermatologists who've made names for themselves on Instagram for their ability to work what looks like magic with nothing more than numbing cream and syringes.
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Reuse of unsterilised syringes and other implements is spreading blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis C. This scourge is especially alarming because many backstreet clinics specialise in pick-me-up steroid injections for almost any ailment.
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The Swiss maker of plungers for disposable syringes and sealing solutions for the car industry is considering how to proceed with its acquisition offer for Premier Farnell in view of the higher offer submitted by Avnet.
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" At this point Dr. Wodak and his colleagues decided to challenge the law, "On the 12th November 1986 we introduced the needle and syringe program and now Australia distributes 35 million needle and syringes a year.
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In March, he was arrested for violating his probation connected to a previous heroin possession charge — possibly for the heroin and 14 syringes found in his car in early 2017, which The Radar Online originally reported.
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Walking from their swank hotel to a convention, to dinner, and back to the hotel, they are likely to see many homeless people, but also several mounds of human shit and used syringes littering the sidewalk.
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"People are figuring out that facelifts are still more effective and can often be much more natural looking than 10 syringes of filler placed in the cheeks," says Beverly Hills facial plastic surgeon Dr. Behrooz Torkian.
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A wider campaign to vaccinate more than 10 million people in the city and along the border with Angola will have to wait at least two more weeks, however, due to shortages of vaccine and syringes.
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It was an artist's bar with late night performances by bands, art shows, plays, Betsey Johnson fashion shows, and performances like the Rock n' Roll Funeral Ball which featured mannequins with syringes stuck in their arms.
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The facility has received and corrected other deficiencies in the past, including improperly stored syringes, which were used to measure liquid medication, and over-bed tables and medication trays that were not properly cleaned and disinfected.
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Wednesday's late-night raid followed the seizure last month of a box containing used syringes, drug ampoules and International Biathlon Union event accreditations at a petrol station near the Italian border, police said in a statement.
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In this case, Nick Miroff springs President Theodore Roosevelt on us, as he explores the morbidly fascinating history of an era when Bayer made "Heroin" as a cough suppressant and Sears sold syringes through the mail.
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Back when I was buying drugs deep into Brooklyn's ungentrified warrens, I'd often take clean syringes to addicts who were homeless, who either could not afford to or were not allowed to buy them from pharmacies.
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Still, the outcomes reported in the studies were generally neutral or positive, including lower overdose rates and fewer emergency calls related to overdoses, though there were some contradictory findings in regards to public disposal of syringes.
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The open bathrobe, the hotel hot tubs, the syringes of erectile-dysfunction drugs delivered by cowed assistants, the transparent requests for "a massage," the ejaculatory exhibitions — it's not just indictable, it's … ick, simultaneously pathological and pathetic.
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A third showed a doctored U.S. presidential seal with an added Star of David — in an apparent reference to Washington's close ties with Iran's arch-enemy Israel — and showing an eagle holding drug syringes and bombs.
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The change, reported by John Stanton at BuzzFeed on Tuesday, keeps the federal funding ban on syringes themselves, but ends the ban on all other aspects of the programs — staff, vehicles, gas, rent, and so on.
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In Venezuela — a country where hospitals already lack syringes, supermarkets struggle to stock basic goods, and the government has declared an economic emergency while sitting upon the world's largest reserves of oil — the strains just keep growing.
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Beginning a little over a year ago, in Scott County, Indiana—an area previously without access to sterile syringes—there was an HIV outbreak with at least 184 cases of HIV in a county of about 23,000.
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SHANGHAI/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Health agencies are investigating an outbreak of bloodstream infections in children from four U.S. states that may be linked to heparin and saline syringes made by Becton Dickinson and Co, the agencies told Reuters.
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None tested positive but half a dozen athletes were banned for life after the discovery of syringes and other equipment, and the Austrian Olympic Committee was fined for anti-doping rules violations by the International Olympic Committee.
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But unlike the harm-reduction efforts aimed at, say, providing clean syringes for heroin users or safe places for them to get high, Kosmicare is a pioneer in psychedelic harm reduction, specifically drug use at musical festivals.
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The women took a commercial flight to San Juan in October, each carrying five suitcases with 800 pounds of supplies, everything from syringes to water filters to donations they received from manufacturers and doctors like Sanchez-Valle.
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Toward the end of my active addiction last winter, when I was myself homeless and panhandling in the East Village, Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center, at 25 Allen Street, saved me from having to share syringes.
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A prefilled carton with two syringes costs $2,669 in the United States, compared with $1,362 in Britain, $822 in Switzerland and $552 in South Africa, according to a 2015 report from the International Federation of Health Plans.
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Based on a survey of people who inject drugs, the researchers also concluded that those in Miami had more than 34 times the adjusted odds to improperly dispose of syringes in public than those in San Francisco.
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That's a rough estimate of how many people will die over the next decade due to opioid-related causes, which include overdoses and other causes of death tied to opioids, such as HIV infections from sharing syringes.
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No drugs were found in their bodies and the syringes and plastic tubes found at one of their flats turned out to be bomb making equipment, not drug injecting paraphernalia, as the media suggested at the time.
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In December, Congress quietly made a huge change to help combat HIV: It effectively lifted the federal funding ban on needle exchange programs, which provide clean needles — meaning syringes that aren't infected with HIV — to drug users.
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The city of Philadelphia began distributing kits to residents that include a blue bulb for the front porch, no-trespassing signs, a tool to pick up used syringes, a needle disposal box and contact information for social services.
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On September 7, 235, 22017-year old Jeniffer Patrick was riding in a car with her 2100-year-old boyfriend when they were pulled over by Marion County sheriff's deputies, who found drugs and syringes in the car.
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Based in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, Gland owns four factories from where it supplies a variety of injectables – widely used medicines administered through vials, syringes, bags and pumps, which are harder to make than regular drugs.
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As for the poor, who tend to work in the uninsured informal sector, they have had to rely on the patchy services provided by health ministries, often having to pay for drugs and even for syringes and sheets.
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The oceanside may look like a sandy paradise, but that top layer of sand you gleefully bound across barefoot is actually covering a terrifying array of syringes and burning embers and parasitic worms that crawl inside your butt.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - A shortage of syringes is hampering plans to vaccinate people in Democratic Republic of Congo against a yellow fever epidemic despite the arrival of more than one million doses of vaccine, health officials said on Tuesday.
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And with the fear of not knowing if they'd have enough drugs or be able to access the medication that prevents withdrawal symptoms, people with addiction were left to possibly take part in risky behaviors, like sharing syringes.
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Gland Pharma, based in the southern city of Hyderabad, owns four factories from where it supplies a variety of injectables – widely used medicines administered through vials, syringes, bags and pumps, which are harder to make than regular medicines.
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Some cities are experimenting with creating safe consumption facilities, where addicts would receive clean needles and syringes and would be permitted to inject heroin, smoke crack cocaine and take other addictive drugs under the supervision of trained authorities.
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A federal appeals court has blocked California from enforcing a state law compelling a company involved in disposing of used syringes and blood collection devices to incinerate the medical waste even when it was transported out of state.
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Act II travels from the nightmare darkness of the hospital — there are 12 cartoonlike nurses with syringes as big as their arms and a doctor with a fabulously outsize head — to the jubilant urban square of Praline's principality.
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"It was full of rubbish: syringes, condom wrappers…" This is 'Crops in Pots', a community initiative in the Scottish capital which has seen hundreds of local residents planting marrows, potatoes, beans, chard, apples, gooseberries, and even a walnut tree.
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The company, which supplies a range of hospital products including intravenous devices, pre-filled vials and syringes for injectable drugs, said it expects to earn between 29 cents and 243 cents per share for the quarter ending March 232.
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The new center, located in a street adjoining Paris's Gare du Nord train station, will allow addicts to inject with clean syringes and under supervision in order to curb overdose deaths and transmission of diseases spread by needle-sharing.
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We had probably about five hours of intermittent, fairly profound blood pressure changes to deal with to the point where Dr. Mann was refilling my syringes for me because I was going through them at such a fast pace.
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Pakistan's government suspended a pediatrician accused of reusing syringes and infecting scores of children with H.I.V. after it was discovered that he had been reassigned to a government-run hospital, in a case that raised fury across the country.
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And maybe, as you continue to wander, as former offices lead into the cavernous terminal, you meet an artist working, Betty Tompkins creating a leaping wild cat from painted words or Valeriy Gerlovin stabbing syringes into a painted icon.
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San Francisco has long been a bastion of the far left – and now it's paying a high price for its extreme progressive policies, including once-beautiful streets filled with dangerous syringes and human waste, resembling Third World back alleys.
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Sandoz will start selling the pre-filled epinephrine syringes, SYMJEPI, in the United States in the first quarter of 2019 at a wholesale price of $250 for a two-pack of 0.3 mg injections, Novartis said in a statement.
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"This project is truly innovative, as it will, for the first time, provide an effective oxytocin product that does not require refrigeration nor other resources such as needles and syringes," says Dr. Michelle McIntosh, project leader of research team.
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Gland Pharma, based in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, owns four factories from where it supplies a variety of injectables – widely used medicines administered through vials, syringes, bags and pumps, which are harder to make than regular medicines.
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The two men, Nicolo Denichilo, 2503, and Adrian Goolcharran, 35, smuggled items including marijuana, steroids, cell phones, SIM cards, and syringes into the prison in Fort Dix, New Jersey, according to the US Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey.
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Ms. Watkins, 36, who also has Type 1 diabetes, then asked that K.W. be allowed to use syringes prefilled by his parents at home or to allow his parents to go to the school to give him the medication.
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In December, the district said it would consider allowing the boy to come to school if the prefilled syringes were labeled by a pharmacy, Ms. Andrews, the district lawyer, said in the email included as evidence with the lawsuit.
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Based on a survey of injection drug users in both cities, the researchers also concluded that users in Miami had more than 34 times the adjusted odds to improperly dispose of syringes in public than users in San Francisco.
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In testimony during the USADA investigations and the hearings, she claimed there were tubes of testosterone-laced AndroGel lying around the condominium where she and other runners stayed while training in Park City, Utah, and syringes in the refrigerator.
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Some 277 people enrolled in the program and more than 90,000 syringes were distributed and returned between April and October 2015, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine found, and the number of new HIV infections decreased.
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He, too, worked with house paint, which he splashed and squirted — using everything from hardened brushes to basting syringes — over canvases he placed on the floor of his Long Island studio (which to this day bears his accidental splatters).
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By creating an ever-bigger market for unhealthful food products, DMI is unwittingly expanding the market for cholesterol-lowering drugs, insulin syringes, and antihypertensive medications, further inflating the medical costs that are already straining American citizens and American employers.
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While switching to milliliter measurements for children's medicines might also help eliminate errors, syringes can make doses doled out in teaspoons or tablespoons more accurate, said Dr. Brian Smith, a pediatrics researcher at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
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Authorities inspect a truck full of blood bags and syringes, upon other medical waste items in Hunan The underground recycling ring, which spanned nearly five provinces in central and southern China, had been in operation since October 2015, according to investigators.
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Health officials say that Ghanghro is not likely to be the sole cause of the outbreak, noting that visiting health workers saw many other doctors reuse syringes, barbers use the same razors to shave customers, and roadside dentists use unsterilized tools.
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"As flying syringes, mosquitoes are particularly adept at spreading disease; Zika is just the latest in a long list," noted Kevin M. Esvelt, an assistant professor at MIT and leader of the school's Sculpting Evolution Group, in an email to Gizmodo.
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A nearby university hospital, a regional center for transplants and cancer treatments, has been so short of funds that doctors have this year regularly had to cut back on treatment because they lacked syringes, latex gloves, chemotherapy medicines and antibiotics.
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Then, over the course of a week, the volunteers had to watch three-minute long videos either containing nothing but neutral images, like nature sounds, or videos featuring drug paraphernalia like syringes or bags of powder meant to look like heroin.
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The former "Teen Mom" also gets very specific when it comes to hygiene, requesting "a pre-planned appointment with an affluent med-spa for service of 2 syringes of Sculpta facial filler," plus a 24k gold collagen breast firming gel mask.
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During those two weeks, over the course of several sessions, the participants were shown images or videos of nature scenes as well as images of drug use and heroin-related paraphernalia, like syringes and packets of powder that resembled heroin.
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The drug distributor ended its fiscal year with a quarterly loss as it set aside $575 million for legal costs for a lawsuit that alleged its unit sold pre-filled syringes of cancer drugs prepared in ways that violated federal rules.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A unit of AmerisourceBergen Corp, one of the largest U.S. drug wholesalers, on Wednesday pleaded guilty to selling pre-filled syringes of cancer drugs prepared in ways that violated federal rules, agreeing to pay penalties of $260 million.
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In a court document filed Wednesday, AmerisourceBergen admitted its now-defunct subsidiary, Medical Initiatives Inc, packaged syringes of cancer drugs at an Alabama facility that was not registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as required by federal law.
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Turkey's pro-government newspaper Sabah reported on Tuesday that the luggage of the Saudi team that was sent to Istanbul at the time of Khashoggi's killing contained syringes, large scissors, staple guns, walkie-talkies, electric shock devices and a signal jammer.
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Pence, who was morally opposed to needle exchanges on the ground that they promoted drug use, has been criticized for waiting more than two months after the outbreak was detected before issuing an executive order allowing syringes to be distributed.
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My brother keeps vanishing into pill bottles and syringes, trying to get high enough to avoid facing the reality of what he's chosen for a life, struggling to stay sober for two, three months before he starts sneaking around again.
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Below are seven types of weird waste found around the world: Medical waste such as syringes and vials of blood was found strewn across Clifton Beach, one of the most famous beaches in the Pakistani city of Karachi, on Monday.
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This less restrictive approach has become more common for exchanges as studies have found that providing a surplus of syringes leads to significantly lower chances of people reusing or sharing needles, which, in turn, reduces the risk of spreading infections.
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As we read of how the doctor pressed the plunger on a series of syringes until the person was no more, we might ask ourselves if this is a road we want our doctors and our society to start down.
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Stacy Cobine, who said she worked as a nurse's aide for many years, says that many drug users are getting abscesses from syringes; she said she had taught younger drug users proper needle technique to avoid infections and other complications.
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And there was the time in early 2015 when my son told me Peter had received a shipment from Amazon that he had opened at the dining room table, pulling out boxes of syringes, bandages, cotton balls and wound cleanser.
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Meanwhile, Eilish&aposs music video for "All the Good Girls Go to Hell," which has 88 million views on YouTube, opened with the singer being injected in her back with multiple syringes before a pair of black wings burst out.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommend that parents use dosing tools with standard markings, such as oral syringes, droppers and dosing cups, rather than kitchen spoons, which vary widely in size and shape.
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Stabbed in the back: A subway rider was attacked in the Bronx after refusing to give a stranger $10 … [NBC New York] Subway shooting gallery: … While riders are complaining about used heroin syringes littering the 181st Street station in Manhattan.
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San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell announced in April a $750,000 initiative to hire workers solely to help clean up the city's "hot spots" of needles and syringes—of which about 275,000 are collected every month by public health officials and nonprofit organizations.
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What if someone thought you didn't know that women invented medical syringes, life rafts, fire escapes, central and solar heating, a war-time communications system for radio-controlling torpedoes that laid the technological foundations for everything from Wi-Fi to GPS, and beer?
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But government officials now believe that he is not the only cause there, and that the bad practices he is accused of, including reusing syringes and IV needles, are so widespread across Pakistan that the entire health care system needs better regulation.
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At his trial, prosecutors read out a long charge sheet of drugs they'd found in Okoye's warehouse: syringes; 1.3 tons of tramadol; 16 kilograms of pentazocine, a drug that creates similar highs to morphine; and labels with forged expiration dates on them.
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The spaces would be connected to existing treatment facilities, which Kagan said when coupled with programs that provide clean syringes can actually cut down on the number of discarded needles in public, as well as reduce the number of people dying from overdoses.
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"Some patients and physicians are resorting to buying epinephrine ampoules and filling their own syringes," said Dr. Thomas Casale, a professor of medicine at the University of South Florida and executive vice president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI).
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Polar Speed, a U.K. specialty logistics company UPS bought in 2014, has trained and background-checked drivers who enter homes to drop off prescriptions, deliver and install medical refrigerators and infusion pumps, and remove waste such as used syringes and wound dressings.
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AmerisourceBergen, one of the largest U.S. drug wholesalers, will pay the federal and state governments $625 million to resolve civil claims over its illegal distribution of adulterated and misbranded drugs, including syringes for cancer patients, New York's attorney general said on Monday.
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He photographs Klein and removes her makeup, then unpacks his oversized Louis Vuitton bag and begins to stack his tools on the table behind her: dozens of boxes of filler, syringes, rubber gloves, and, most unusually, a small vial of another woman's placenta.
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The fair is known for experimenting with new, over-the-top foods, and this year they decided to introduce injectable donuts accompanied by three plastic syringes used to insert various fillings — Bavarian cream, chocolate custard and Minnesota lingonberry jam — into the treat.
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Bradley's plan was for the state of New Jersey to launch its own satellite to monitor the Jersey coast, which had to close its beaches when the "syringe tide" washed a significant amount of medical waste, syringes, and human body parts ashore.
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The WHO plans to begin a vaccination campaign in the province of Kwango near the Angolan border on July 20 but the U.N. body's spokesman in Congo, Eugene Kabambi, said the country had only about four million syringes but needed 10 million.
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Steven Westervelt, project manager for Di Pompeo Construction, which built the school and the park where Alton is believed to have come into contact with the drugs, said his crew found a dozen syringes at the site every day over the past year.
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The hospitals involved -- at least six, according to CNN's latest tally -- have one thing in common: a surgical tech was once on their staff who's accused of swapping out syringes full of the liquid painkiller fentanyl and possibly putting patients' safety at risk.
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Two years ago, on the 20th anniversary of Cobain's death, police released grainy pictures showing evidence collected at the scene -- including a box filled with syringes and a tainted spoon, a lighter, cigarette packet and other personal belongings strewn across the floor.
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Recent reports have surfaced about efforts to help this group through a disaster by dosing out extra medication to prevent withdrawal (such as methadone for heroin users), overdose reversal kits (Narcan) that can be life-saving, or giving out additional clean syringes.
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Government officials initially blamed a single pediatrician, but the unsafe practices of reusing syringes and needles are so commonplace that officials say Pakistan's entire health care system bears responsibility and is in dire need of better regulation, The New York Times reports.
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In a court document filed in September, AmerisourceBergen admitted that Medical Initiatives packaged syringes of cancer drugs at an Alabama facility that was not registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as required by federal law, pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge.
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Consumers do have the option of using syringes to administer epinephrine, or they can buy from other countries – but that's more hassle for families already overwhelmed with trying to figure out what to do as kids with allergies head back to school.
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There are giant boxes of syringes, needles, powders and diluents sent directly to your house, and you -- who has never shot a needle into anyone before -- are expected to mix, measure and self-administer these crucial and expensive drugs on a regular basis.
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There is a hint of molecular gastronomy, as when the chef Eneko Atxa of Azurmendi, his three-star restaurant near Bilbao, cooks an egg "inside out," by delicately using syringes to remove some yolk and replace it with a warm truffle consommé.
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"The waste included items such as electronics, batteries, aerosol cans, compact fluorescent light bulbs, and medical waste including syringes, over-the-counter and prescribed pharmaceuticals, as well as confidential medical information from its customers," the Alameda County District Attorney's Office press release states.
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Yes, the joke is in theory on this Kyle W character, but seriously, descriptions of 100s of dudes ejaculating on the floor in order to slide through it, and forcing syringes on each other, presents the LGBT community as nothing but deviants.
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When Santa Ana decided to shut down OCNEP's operations in the local Civic Center, it pointed to photo evidence of needles found in the area surrounding the exchange, from needles found in books in the public library to syringes found in the streets.
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I have to watch while my husband and I draw it into our syringes—the sharpest we can find in the lot—and inject ourselves with something we must have known, in the back of our minds, would bring us nothing but pain.
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Supervised consumption sites, also known as safe injection sites, are spaces where people can use drugs with sterile syringes and the supervision of trained staff, with the opioid overdose antidote naloxone and other medical equipment at the ready if anything goes wrong.
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It wasn't only people who injected drugs who were affected, either: At the height of the epidemic, which was centered in New York City, three-quarters of infections in heterosexual people resulted from HIV originally spread through unsterile syringes, and then passed on sexually.
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Conductors there reportedly have taken to the trains&apos PA systems to warn riders about hypodermic needles being left on seats by transient drug users as San Francisco fights an uphill battle to clean up thousands of syringes discarded each month all over the city.
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There was Norman Calder from Portknockie, Scotland, with his haggis pie; Tamal Ray, an anesthesiologist of Indian descent from Hertfordshire, who used syringes to infuse syrup into pastries; and Jane Beedle, a garden designer from London, who perfected the lemon poppy seed drizzle cake.
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When it came time to show their work, Mershin loaded up a large van with the contents of nearly an entire lab—hoses, tubes, pipes, syringes, a 300-pound optical table, and a frequency generator worth $53,000—and drove it from Boston to Baltimore.
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The city's justification focused on a common trope used against exchanges: needle litter — the idea that exchanges let people get a lot of syringes that are then improperly disposed in public places, exposing the public to the risk of getting inadvertently stuck by a needle.
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The researchers then looked through the eight studies to measure the possible effects of the sites on several outcomes, including ambulance attendances relating to opioid-related events, overdose mortality, drug-related crime, borrowing or sharing syringes and injecting equipment, and problematic heroin use or injection.
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The couple took hormones but didn't like them; they took ketamine, daily, and liked it so much that they often went to sleep with full syringes on their night stands, so that whoever woke up first could inject the other partner in mid-slumber.
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They should be one of the least controversial ideas in public health; for decades, studies have repeatedly found that the programs help prevent the spread of diseases, such as HIV and hepatitis C, that can spread through used syringes, while not increasing overall drug use.
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When a 140-ton fatberg was found in the East End of London in 2017, a subsequent autopsy revealed that the city's residents had been flushing condoms, syringes and narcotics — including cocaine and ketamine — down the toilet, and they were all lodged inside it.
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Despite concerns that the facilities would draw more drug users to an area and cause disorder, the research suggests, according to the EMCDDA, that these facilities lead to less public injecting and fewer syringes discarded in the area — both of which can benefit local communities.
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We've loved you such a long time, since all the way back in the mid-28s when you dropped the unimpeachably awesome "Not if You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" (aided and abetted by its David LaChapelle-directed video, which featured dancing syringes, natch).
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It all started when Dr. Edward Boyer floated the possibility of implanting micro-tracking devices into some ADF pills, to see whether they're reaching (and remaining at) their intended destinations, a daydream not too far removed from work he'd apparently done with Bluetooth-enabled Naloxone syringes.
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"The first night I was standing in my kitchen with all the stuff" — the needles, syringes, and medication — "spread out on the table, totally terrified of doing it," said Emily Cotton who lives in Boston and froze her eggs last year at the age of 2016.
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Despite concerns that the facilities would draw more people who use drugs to an area and cause disorder, the research suggests, according to the EMCDDA, that these facilities lead to less public injecting and fewer syringes discarded in the area — both of which can benefit local communities.
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The facilities, also known as safe injection sites, provide a space where people can use drugs, legal or not, with sterile injection equipment — such as new syringes — and the supervision of trained staff, who are ready with the opioid overdose antidote naloxone if anything goes wrong.
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The oil-producing state, hit hard by the recession and drop in crude prices, faced its worst ever public health crisis this year when unpaid doctors and nurses walked off the job at hospitals and clinics were left without essential supplies such as syringes and disinfectants.
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The oil-producing state, hit hard by the recession and drop in crude prices, faced its worst-ever public health crisis this year when unpaid doctors and nurses walked off the job at hospitals and clinics were left without essential supplies such as syringes and disinfectants.
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The sanguinarians I spoke to say they go out of their way to make sure everything is sterile, such as the knives, needles and syringes used in the process, and some get their donors to have regular blood work done to make sure they are healthy.
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In the months leading up to the Tokyo subway attack, Aum stepped up its VX attacks, spreading it on car door handles, injecting it into keyholes and spraying it from syringes onto lawyers, members of Aum victims groups, rival religious leaders and other dissident cult members.
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" GlaxoSmithKline also began shipping backordered single-dose syringes at the end of October, Gaitens said, adding that the company is working closely with the CDC and California officials on "how to distribute and to ensure the vaccines are actually going to where there is the greatest need.
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Some of the shortages have become severe enough that the F.D.A. has allowed Pfizer to sell products that normally would have been recalled: In May, Pfizer released morphine and other drugs in cracked syringes, with instructions to health care providers to filter the drugs before injecting them.
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The authorities said the investigation began after a witness saw several small buses pull up to a gas station last month in East Tyrol, Austria, and dispose of a large cardboard box containing syringes and other medical equipment, as well as handwritten records detailing doping regimens.
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This meant that clients could go to the program to get a bunch of syringes for the coming week — and they wouldn't be required to trade a needle for each one they get, since studies indicate that's less effective for preventing the spread of infectious diseases.
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While the term itself may conjure up horrific images involving syringes, pain, and deflated male anatomy, the actual process can be as simple as taking pills every few months, according to Scott Woodside, head of the sexual behavior clinic at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
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I think we're at the beginning of an eradication era — because of vaccines — and as we learn more and more about logistics, cold chains, how to develop vaccines that don't require refrigeration, don't require using needles and syringes, I think the future is very bright for disease eradication.
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Yami Kawaii may be jarring to those unfamiliar with it: It often mashes up bows and glitter with words like "I Want To Die;" anti-depressant pills and syringes are used to accessorize outfits, and bracelets made to look like razor wounds were so popular they sold out.
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"We understand the impact food packaging has on the environment, and The Hangar, along with the fair, has decided that plastic syringes will not be used as part of the Wingwalker Donut Flight," a spokesperson for the Minnesota State Fair said in a statement that was shared online.
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On a stage at Denver's Air & Space museum, an 182,000 square-foot space filled with decommissioned aircraft, she stands in front of a PowerPoint presentation and describes her company's no-needle syringes, which can deliver vaccines by accelerating the liquid into a superfast stream that punctures the skin.
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Instead, through a series of undercover reports in a format similar to CBS network's "60 Minutes" in the United States, it highlighted issues such as how some Chinese factories were turning medical waste such as plastic syringes into toys and bags, and the health risks from smoking e-cigarettes.
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"Once you have a city that's already adopted syringe exchange and is talking about these things, it makes sense at some point that people say, 'Hey, maybe if we're going to give people syringes, maybe we don't send them out to a dirty alley to use them,'" she said.
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Cops say they later found the bag which contained meth, marijuana, syringes, a pipe ... and Todd's wallet with his I.D. Now, the Orange County D.A. says the office is moving forward with 5 misdemeanor charges against Marinovich including meth possession, weed possession, public nudity and 2 trespassing charges.
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Related: Syringes in the Streets, Gang Shootings, and Clockwork Orange: How Ireland Is Tackling a Drug Crisis British and Irish citizens have been able to travel freely between the two countries with few if any border controls since 1923, DUP Deputy Leader Nigel Dodds told the BBC recently.
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The 2020 federal budget includes $2.6 billion for the public health emergency fund, with $620 million for the Strategic National Stockpile, which is a repository of drugs, vaccines, and equipment like masks and syringes that stays hidden at undisclosed locations, and $258 million to prepare hospitals to handle emergencies.
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The company is not currently distributing pre-filled syringes "to ensure patient safety," it said, because of problems with a third-party supplier it declined to name That followed a February 2017 report by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that found significant violations at the McPherson plant.
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A recent study found that sex workers across 33 countries who face repressive policing -- identified as arrest, imprisonment, confiscation of needles, syringes, condoms, displacement to new area or physical or sexual violence by officers -- have three times higher chance of experiencing physical or sexual violence than the general population.
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One, Jose Luis Vasquez, who was shot near his home by someone stealing his bike, has had to foot the bill for syringes, gauze and other necessities, and is even reduced to using a water gallon as a makeshift surgical drain to draw fluid from his lungs as he lies recuperating.
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In Maine, a peer addiction recovery coach founded the Church of Safe Injection last year "to spread the gospel of harm reduction" by handing out overdose reversal medication and clean needles to people with addiction, even though it's illegal in Maine to have more than 10 syringes without a certification.
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The Harm Reduction Coalition, which was founded in 1993, is one of many organizations working to build a nationwide network of needle exchange programs that provide IV drug users with free clean syringes as well as training in how to administer naloxone (trade name Narcan), the antidote to opioid overdose.
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Doctors have three main ways to cut costs: improve the condition of patients before surgery, look for savings in every item used in the operating room (gloves, gowns, syringes, surgical tools, sutures, sponges and the implant itself), and send patients to nursing homes that strive to shorten the length of stay.
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The problems "Crimson Contagion" revealed were more than usual federal and state government friction: "The United States, the organizers realized, did not have the means to quickly manufacture more essential medical equipment, supplies or medicines, including antiviral medications, needles, syringes, N95 respirators and ventilators, the agency concluded," the Times reports.
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At least 400 people are shooting up on Dublin's streets monthly, according to Duffin, who quickly spotted abandoned syringes and other drug paraphernalia, and is calling for the next government to bring in a law providing for supervised injecting rooms, which he says could prevent deaths from overdoses that average one a day.
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The vending machines don't require any money — anyone can press a button, and the machine will dispense a kit containing a box of 10 syringes, a rubber tourniquet, a needle disposal container for the used needles, alcohol swabs and band aids, as well as an information sheet on where to find treatment.
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"If that were true—that drug users don't care about their health—then we wouldn't have seen the HIV rate go down from 54 percent in the early '90s among the over quarter-million injectors in New York to under 3 percent, where it's held once sterile syringes were made available," he says.
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Those who feel so inclined can dine in the company of ninjas, drink out of urine syringes in a creepy prison ER ward, get their Twilight on with cocktails like the Blood Clot at the Vampire Café, or watch buxom bikini babes duke it out with cyborgs at the perpetually popular Robot Restaurant.
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Orange County's argument, like Santa Ana's, focused on a trope often used against syringe exchanges: the threat of needle litter — the idea that exchanges let people obtain a lot of syringes that are then improperly disposed in public places, exposing the public to the risk of getting inadvertently stuck by a needle.
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Situated along a busy highway that separates the United States and Mexico on the outskirts of Tijuana's red-light district, it's a perfect spot, and volunteers quickly begin unpacking the van's makeshift doctor's office onto the sidewalk: Aging card tables are deployed and stacked with boxes of syringes, overdose kits, rubber gloves, and other supplies.
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AFGHANISTAN Indus R. PAKISTAN Ratodero IRAN INDIA Karachi 200 miles By The New York Times The doctor recently renewed his medical certificate and now works as a general practitioner at a government hospital on the outskirts of Ratodero, despite laws that make the reuse of syringes an offense that is not eligible for bail.
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Kim and the needle exchange's staff showed me around the program, talking about the thousands of people served, and pointing to the stacks of syringes, the materials that help link people to other treatment, and a poster claiming more than 1,000 overdoses had been reversed by naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, distributed by the facility.
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The passive safety syringes segment is expected to emerge as the fastest growing market during the forecast period North America accounted for the largest share in 2015 on account of very high healthcare standards, the presence of well-developed hospital and primary healthcare networks, high patient awareness, and the rising demand for sophisticated drug delivery techniques.
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Inside the home, police found receipts for trash bags from different stores, gray duct tape, a section of a gray floor mat from the van, four bottles of bleach, syringes, a black bag with duct tape, a shovel, several pieces of carpet, a carpet pad, a black flashlight and swabs from a black flashlight, the station reports.
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Court documents filed by federal prosecutors also indicate that Allen was placed on administrative leave while working at a California hospital after allegedly switching syringes in an operating room and hiding a syringe full of fentanyl inside his sock, and that he was terminated from a job at an Arizona hospital after testing positive for the drug.
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The Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition, founded in 2016 by 29-year-old medical student Sarah Ziegenhorn, provides weekly outreach services in cities across Iowa, distributing safer injection kits, condoms, and test kits for HIV and hepatitis C. The clean syringes, provided by partnering non-profit Prairie Works, are handed out discreetly from the back of a car.
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The driving idea behind the programs is this: Recognizing the reality that some people do use drugs, it's better to provide them somewhere to pick up new, sterile syringes (without the risk of spreading, say, HIV or hepatitis C infection) than to turn them away from potential public health services and force them to reuse needles despite the hazards.
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This particular recommendation is targeted at centers run by the Care Center for Support and Prevention of Addiction (CSAPA) and the Centers for Supporting Risk Reduction for Drug Users (CAARUD), public institutions specializing in the treatment and prevention of addiction that already provide addicts with clean syringes and access to testing for infectious diseases like HIV, hepatitis, and tuberculosis.
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Across the board—as seen in recent guest columns in USA Today and CNN Opinion, among others—experts seem to basically agree on how the funds should be spent: The money must be focused on programs that distribute clean syringes and Naloxone, counseling and youth outreach for those at-risk or suffering from addiction, and long-term recovery services to prevent relapses.
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Will Fox, a spokesman for RevMedx, the company that makes Xstat, said that all United States Army Special Forces and Ranger medics carry two types of syringes — a fat tube version designed for exit wounds from high-velocity automatic weapons and a thin tube version, which works for entrance and other small wounds and is more appropriate for civilian use.
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When I could not stop injecting drugs, and yet held out hope that I might one day like to live, access to clean syringes, as well as to sterile water, tourniquets, sharps containers and filters for IV solutions, enabled me to evade scourges like H.I.V., sepsis and endocarditis, which grows like a culture around the valves of the heart and can require surgery.
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For years, the tides of trash have washed up on the beaches of Guatemala and neighboring Honduras, burying the small fishing communities in feet-deep drifts of Styrofoam and other plastic: combs, toothbrushes, mascara tubes, Crocs, flip-flops, colorful snakes of plastic rope, molded foam mats, rubber balls, action figures, soda bottles, syringes, IV bags, half-empty bottles of disinfectant.
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On Wednesday, at the conclusion of his trip to the American West, where he held a campaign fundraiser and visited a section of the border wall, President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that San Francisco was "in total violation" and would be given "notice" for purportedly allowing its homeless population to pollute the ocean with used syringes.
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The report pointed to two main reasons for the high rates of infection among injection drug users: high rates of incarceration and the inability of people with HIV and HCV to access services that provide antiretroviral therapy (in the case of HIV), needle exchange programs, which provide drug users sterile syringes, and opioid substitution therapy, which involves oral drugs such as methadone that are not injected.
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He also gained notoriety for stunts that angered many of the people he would need to work with to form a coalition government — including throwing a bag full of empty syringes over the head of a fellow opposition lawmaker after disapproving of a newspaper interview the lawmaker gave about drugs, and holding a sign saying, "He is drunk," next to the speaker of Parliament during a recent session.
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"When parents used dosing cups, they had four times the odds of making a dosing error, compared to when they used an oral syringe," said Dr. Shonna Yin, an associate professor at NYU Medical School and a co-author of the study, published today in the journal Pediatrics Pain relievers and other medications made specifically for children usually come in liquid formulations and, when accuracy is critical, oral syringes are considered the gold standard.
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Implement harm reduction for current users Access to clean syringes — as Governor Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters FEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud Five years after Yazidi genocide, US warns ISIS is rebounding MORE approved in Indiana, resulting in a rapid reduction of spread of HIV — can prevent injection-related infectious diseases, and access to naloxone can reduce fatal overdoses.
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Pass through the door, however, and the building reveals itself to be a hive of activity: scientists in white lab coats bring beakers in and out of a door marked "DO NOT ENTER," a honeycomb of cubicles house PR and sales reps typing with one hand and answering a phone with other, and a small army of technicians are busy using syringes to fill tiny glass vials with a viscous golden nectar.
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Staffa tried to halt the tangent's momentum ("I just want to throw in a little reality check, from back here on the ground," she said) but by then it'd taken on a life of its own: Ideas put forward included pills that send signals when they're crushed, "white-hat" hackers for premarket ADFs, ADFs which, if snorted or shot, would leave chemical traces in the body, the potential benefits of gathering and testing discarded syringes, etc.
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When in an evacuation scenario, as we found in our paper [a 2016 study published in the journal Substance Use & Misuse that looked at 300 injection drug users in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in New York City in 2012], people injecting drugs did not have sufficient syringes to inject safely or they were forced to share and they did that with people they didn't normally [whose HIV and hepatitis C status they were unaware of].
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