Drug injection rates cut nearly in half at WA needle exchanges, UW survey finds

Drug injection rates cut nearly in half at WA needle exchanges, UW survey finds

A recent University of Washington (UW) survey found that the number of respondents reporting injecting drugs in a given year has dropped nearly 50% from 2021 to 2025. In 2021, UW recorded 93% of survey respondents had injected drugs that year, and in its latest data collection, syringe use had dropped to 44% in 2025, according to UW Medicine. While drug injection rates plummeted, 90% of respondents reported smoking drugs in the previous week in …