State officials decided Monday to let the Orange County Needle Exchange Program operate for two years starting Monday, Aug. 6, according to an email and letter from the department.

Indeed, SB689 is no solution at all. At no time does he address how local officials could or will improve syringe exchange efforts in Orange County.

As it stands, Orange County is the biggest county in the country without a program providing syringe access, according to the California Department of Public Health. The Harm Reduction Institute, then ...

Heroin-related deaths have skyrocketed — 590 percent over a four-year period from 2010 to 2014, according to the Florida Health Department in Orange County. The clean needle program includes ...