Needle use in prisons
In many prisons, drug abuse is rife. There are no end of unconfirmed reports appearing in the press of ready access to a range of drugs in prisons, smuggled in […]
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Family shocked by needle find on beach
At this time of year, with the UK battered by storms the thought of enjoying a day on the beach seems a long way off. And so it is, for […]
A Christmas present for your girlfriend?
What to give your girlfriend for Christmas? It’s a perennial problem, but one that can go so badly wrong. And so it was for the idiot young man in Cornwall, […]
Which is the best sharps safety glove?
The Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST), established in Québec since 1980, is a scientific research organization well-known for the quality of its work […]
12th international sharps injury prevention awareness month
The 12th annual international sharps injury prevention awareness month takes place in December. The sharps injury awareness campaign is designed to provide information to healthcare workers, waste management workers, and […]
Hunt for Birmingham needle attacker
Police are hunting a man who has attacked at least 3 women in the Birmingham area, using a hypodermic needle as a weapon. At least on of the women was […]
Boy on AIDS drugs after needlestick
A bag of hypodermic needles dumped outside a school has turned a Cape Town family’s lives into a “living hell”. This was after the bag, dumped near a Junior Primary […]
Sharps injury on the beach
One typical morning at Flynns Beach in Port Macquarie changed everything for a seven year old boy and his family. The young lad found a strange object in the soft sand at the […]
One needle, 6 kiddies
Six kindergarten kiddies stuck with a needle at school earlier this week. St. Louis Public School officials say it happened at Monroe Elementary in south St. Louis. A student brought […]
Is that sharps bin in a safe place?
Sharps bins contain dangerous items, as those suffering the shock and trauma, and possibly the consequences of a sharps injury will attest. But sometimes, we manage to make it worse, placing […]
Safety needle danger
Glaxo has been required to issue a recall of pre-filled syringe/needle sets of Imigran Subject, a preparation of sumatriptan used for the acute treatment of severe migrane. Apparently, a small number of syringes may have […]
Trick or treat?
Halloween is upon us and kids everywhere are making an even greater nuisance of themselves in the hope of a treat, or perhaps to deliver a trick. But for one little […]
Managing drug litter
There are many ways to manage drug litter. It is dangerous and unsightly, it raises fear in communities and can devalue land or indeed an entire community. It flags danger, […]
Needle and syringe used in armed robbery
A needle and syringe was used in a Nambour, South East Queensland, armed robbery. A 34-year-old woman was returning to her vehicle in a supermarket car park when a man approached […]
Child stuck by needle at playground
A mother makes a shocking discovery in the playground at Burger King on Buena Vista Road in Columbus, Georgia. She said her son was stuck with a needle at the end of […]
Horror of boy stuck by needle on Dundee bus
A Dundee family face an agonising six-month wait after their young son was pricked by a used needle on a bus. The six-year-old boy was injured following an incident aboard […]
Discarded sharps litter from IV drug abuse
A local newspaper reports a Muskegon County, Michigan, man found with heroin needle in arm in a parking lot. That is not uncommon, and is a situation that ambulance crews […]
Parents warned after primary school needle find
Parents of a Dalbeattie primary school warned to be vigilant after a used needle was found in the school grounds. Parents have been told to watch for dirty needles after […]
Another sharps injury
A New Castle, Pennsylvania police officer accidentally punctured his thumb with a needle allegedly used by a man to inject heroin. Police had been called to a man who was on the ground […]
Drug litter – ‘activists’ fight back
Discarded needles and other drug use and injection paraphernalia is a widespread problem, of immediate safety and wider public concern. Approaches to management of this problem includes the obvious, that […]
NICE recommendations – now gyms asked to provide sharps bins
Further reading of the NICE recommendations concerning sharps safety and improved hygiene measures for piercers, and those offering borderline beauty treatments including Botox and dermal filler injections has shown an additional recommendation […]
NICE recommendations for needle risk over beauty treatments
The BBC is today reporting concerns regarding disease transmission – Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B and HIV – associated with hygiene failures during high-street piercing outlets. To offer a piercing service, outlets […]
Kirklees Council 0/10 for clinical waste services
A Batley pensioner is struggling to have her used diabetic needles collected. Describing her ‘nightmare’ to the local press with fears about the accumulation of sharps boxes in her home [presumably, […]
Needlestick on Australian beach
A mother has an anxious after a ‘dirty needle’ prick at Frankston Beach near Melbourne. As always, the beach-side area attracts IV drug users who seek some degree of isolation and […]
Sharps danger on Southend beach
A mum has spoken of her horror after her son stood on a used drugs needle as he played on a Southend beach. As e have discussed many time previously on […]
Lifesaver syringe: useful or not?
A Huddersfield designer has developed a ‘Lifesaver’ syringe that changes colour to deep red within a minute of removal from its sterile wrapper, to warn that it is not sterile […]
Young boys suffer sharps injury
Two young lads have suffered near-miss sharps exposures in separate incidents in the UK, in each case while enjoying an outing to play in the park. In Maidenhead, a nine-year-old […]
Needle crime #2
A baby girl is in intensive care in north China’s Heilongjiang Province after three needles were found stuck into her — weeks after doctors removed another from her body. Police […]
Needle crime
Robber Brandishes Hypodermic Needle In Jewellery Store Heist A robber told a jewellery store clerk he had communicable diseases as he threatened the store clerk with a hypodermic needle and […]
Plotting the distribution of needle finds
We have reported many needle find incidents recently, and that is barely the tip of a very big iceberg. So, as data accumulates concerning reported needle finds, can anything be […]