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 ...

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 ...

There has been a lot of attention on the charges filed against the former COO of the Harm Reduction Coalition of San Diego involving alleged misuse of county grant funds that were designated for ...

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, ...

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 ...

“We hope this is information that you’ll never need to use, but now you have it if you ever do.” This is the closing message of a very informative training video now available to all students, faculty ...

“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 future of psychiatric treatment includes psychedelic healthcare. As the negative stigma around psychedelics and cannabis continues to shift, other stigmatized mind-altering medicines have emerged ...

One hot summer evening in 2019, security called us out of our clinic located within the largest men’s shelter in Boston, Massachusetts: “Overdose, out front!” We grabbed the oxygen tank and emergency ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — In some major cities across the United States, recent reporting from The New York Times finds that there's now a turn away from once-favored harm reduction efforts meant to blunt the ...

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.

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