Court decision means needle exchange program can’t operate in Orange County

A proposed mobile syringe exchange program that would have served four Orange County cities can’t begin operating and is expected to lose its state approval, under a court ruling issued Friday, Oct. 25.
The county and Anaheim, Costa Mesa and Orange sued last year to block the nonprofit, volunteer-based Orange County Needle Exchange Program from launching a mobile service that would have operated in those three cities and Santa Ana. Syringe exchange programs offer clean needles and acc