Over the past four years, nearly 7,000 people have injected, smoked or otherwise used street drugs like fentanyl and cocaine ...

In the landscape of addiction treatment, we often find ourselves searching for approaches that honor the fundamental human need for connection. Harm reduction, frequently misunderstood, offers more ...

Harm reduction advocates are implementing solidarity-based strategies for curbing drug overdoses in Minneapolis. This story was copublished and supported by the journalism nonprofit the Economic ...

The opioid crisis is one of the most urgent public health challenges in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. experienced a significant ...

MINOT — To understand why harm reduction works, as a public policy, we must first consider what doesn’t work. Prohibition doesn’t work. We tried it with alcohol, and it was one of the most spectacular ...

Giving addicts syringes to shoot up was never a popular idea. It still isn’t. Despite medical authorities’ confident assertions that such programs dramatically cut down on disease transmission, ...

Harm reduction has long been considered a nonjudgmental, evidence-based approach to drug use that reduces overdose deaths and infectious disease—adverse consequences exacerbated by the war on drugs.

Loftin Wilson, a harm reduction programs manager for the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, works on one of the coalition's syringe service programs. Credit: Photo courtesy of the subject This ...

Clinical and behavioral studies are cornerstones of any Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) submission, from pharmacokinetic to actual use investigations. This webinar will explore the ...

“I died this weekend,” a client told me recently. I work at a harm reduction non-profit in Salt Lake City, and I wish I could say this was the only time I’d heard that statement. We serve people who ...

The Phoenix City Council approved a controversial new law that puts new restrictions in place about providing medical care in ...

A harm reduction advocate is disappointed in the provincial government's decision to end the drug decriminalization project, calling it a step backwards.