This story is a follow up to one that The Republican and MassLive.com published at 5:08 p.m. on Wednesday, May 18, 2016: Needle exchange in Holyoke would continue but under different state law: ...

Tracy L. Cheatle, Tapestry Health harm reduction counselor, looks for used syringes in a wooded area in South Holyoke in a cleanup in September 2012 photo. HOLYOKE-- Tapestry Health will hold a ...

Ian Hayes, a counselor at Tapestry Health, goes over some of the safer injection items that the agency’s syringe service program can offer injection drug users, like this portable sharps container.

NORTHAMPTON — Every time a heroin user walks into the needle exchange clinics in Northampton and Holyoke, program director Liz Whynott sees a part of herself. That’s because she was once, like them, a ...

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – Throughout western Massachusetts from Springfield to North Adams, Tapestry Community Healthcare reaches out to help people with addiction problems, preventing clients from ...