The nonprofit operates from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and serves roughly 1,500 people each month through a combination of ...

The Lurie administration is limiting the distribution of harm-reduction supplies, and otherwise appears to be pivoting from harm reduction as a key strategy for mitigating the dangers of drug ...

“Harm reduction” interventions for substance use – measures like needle exchange programs and methadone distribution that aim to reduce the adverse effects of substance use, rather than punish or ...

Public health in Ghana is experiencing a dynamic period of transformation, one increasingly defined by the intersection of ...

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The Cherokee Nation’s approach to substance abuse recovery is harm reduction, which has drawn criticism from some who work in addiction recovery. “Harm reduction is a pretty controversial topic. A lot ...

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 ...

Blue cities are moving away from so-called harm reduction strategies in combating overdose deaths from use of hard drugs. Harm reduction aims to decrease the negative consequences of risky behavior ...

Last year, Combe won the Campus Compact Newman Civic Fellowship for her work in harm reduction. Combe’s passion for substance ...

As the former surgeon general of the United States and a Black man, I feel compelled to tell Congress: Black Americans need your help. Substance use disorder affects communities across America, but it ...

Following Trump's executive order designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, the Salt Lake Harm Reduction Project ...