A study published on Wednesday shows the rate of HIV infection among people who inject themselves with drugs appears to be rising.

INJECTING drug addicts are to get extra help at a drop-in centre in Dewsbury town centre. Over Pounds 7,000 will pay for two nurses to help drug users to have better medical care and ensure that injection wounds do not become infected.

By Erika Niedowski, The Baltimore Sun Dec. 17--PORT LOUIS, Mauritius -- The sun set hours ago. Most everyone who sang and prayed in this concrete room with curtains that's still stuffy from body heat have gone home.

City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation's first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses.

By THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - Ottawa has given Vancouver's safe injection site another six-month reprieve, meaning the facility can operate until next June.