Across America, drug policy is shifting as a backlash takes hold against “harm reduction”, an approach grounded in the idea ...

Blue cities are moving away from so-called harm reduction strategies in combating overdose deaths from use of hard drugs.

For eight years, the nonprofit Salt Lake Harm Reduction Project has served Salt Lake and its surrounding communities. A main goal is to provide syringe exchanges to reduce the harm caused by drug use, ...

SEVEN NEWS. FENTANYL IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF OPIOID DEATHS IN NEW MEXICO, AND WHILE THE STATISTICS ARE ALARMING, ORGANIZATIONS ARE TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE STATE. ACTION SEVEN NEWS REPORTER ...

As a cannabis epidemiologist with fifteen years of experience studying cannabis – and as a medical cannabis patient myself – I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how science assesses and labels ...

Opioids, including the best known—morphine, heroin and fentanyl—have been gaining popularity over the last few decades.

San Francisco is expanding a harm reduction program inside permanent supportive housing while cutting back on street-level ...

We need to talk about Little Saigon — particularly the intersection of 12th Avenue and Jackson Street. Allow me to offer a glimpse of what is happening there: Addicts and dealers, housed and unhoused, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Amid what feels like an ever-worsening drug crisis here, locals and politicians alike are fed up. Overdose death rates remain near all-time highs. The Tenderloin, a historic downtown ...

Smokefree products are picking up speed in the tobacco business. The race is on for success in harm reduction: encouraging smokers to switch completely to reduced risk alternatives. Evidence of this ...

Oklahoma lawmakers legalized harm reduction programs in 2021, allowing the groups to possess sterile syringes without fear of legal trouble.

Mary Pendery, before her sad demise at the hands of the Disease Theory Recently, an old friend of Mary Pendery's contacted me via e-mail. I was surprised to see Mary's ghost resurface this way. This ...