EditorialOdin SmallCarter, left, and DeMarcus Carter, who has co-parented Odin since she was 2, packing their car for a road trip to Minneapolis, where Odin was scheduled for a medical appointment, in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 5, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialOdin SmallCarter, left, and DeMarcus Carter, who has co-parented Odin since she was 2, packing their car for a road trip to Minneapolis, where Odin was scheduled for a medical appointment, in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 5, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialOdin SmallCarter, left, and DeMarcus Carter, who has co-parented Odin since she was 2, packing their car for a road trip to Minneapolis, where Odin was scheduled for a medical appointment, in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 5, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialOdin SmallCarter, left, and DeMarcus Carter, who has co-parented Odin since she was 2, packing their car for a road trip to Minneapolis, where Odin was scheduled for a medical appointment, in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 5, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialOdin SmallCarter, left, and DeMarcus Carter, who has co-parented Odin since she was 2, packing their car for a road trip to Minneapolis, where Odin was scheduled for a medical appointment, in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 5, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialOdin SmallCarter, left, and DeMarcus Carter, who has co-parented Odin since she was 2, packing their car for a road trip to Minneapolis, where Odin was scheduled for a medical appointment, in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 5, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialJohn Tate, a volunteer with Peer Network of New York, holds a container of used needles as he and others clean up sidewalks in the Mott Haven area of The Bronx, in New York on Wednesday Jan. 13, 2023. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialUsed needles, Narcan sprays and abandoned belongings on Kensington Ave., in the Philadelphia, Pa. neighborhood at the epicenter of the city’s drug trade, on Dec. 12, 2022. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialAn undated photo provided by Margaret Roach shows the inner needles of a white pine (Pinus strobus) preparing to shed. (Margaret Roach via The New York Times)
EditorialA member of the nonprofit Sidewalk Project passes out clean needles, Narcan, water, clothing, snacks and other supplies in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles, Aug. 15, 2022. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
EditorialSoma Snakeoil of the nonprofit Sidewalk Project, center, passes out clean needles, Narcan, water, clothing, snacks and other supplies in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
EditorialPaulo Dantas burns needles off of cacti to feed cattle on the family farm near Parelhas, in the arid Serido region of northeast Brazil, Oct. 31, 2021. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times)
EditorialOasis, a needle-exchange program, uses Folgers coffee containers and tongs to pick up contaminated hypodermic needles during sweeps of Atlantic City, N.J., on Friday, July 23, 2021. (Michelle Gustafson/The New York Times)
EditorialHomeless encampment on Venice beach continues to be cleaned by after pressure from the Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva, During the clean up dozens of needles, knifes and shives were found along with hundreds of mice which have been living under tents.
EditorialThe Avenue of the Giants, a scenic road through Humboldt Redwoods State Park in Northern California, June 1, 2021. (Drew Kelly/The New York Times)
EditorialFirst lady Dr. Jill Biden holds the hand of a teenager getting vaccinated as actress Jennifer Garner Looks on., Charleston, West Virginia, USA - 13 May 2021
EditorialAzim Ahmad receives a coronavirus vaccine from the nurse Juliana Julot Alexis in Newark, N.J., on Feb. 26, 2021. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialNate Stephenson, a research ecologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, works in the Kings Canyon National Park in California, Oct. 27, 2020. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)