“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 ...

A coalition of local groups aiming to protect people from drug abuse and sexually transmitted infections have launched a new ...

Addiction has long been seen as something to be hidden, stigmatized, or explained away as a personal failing. But addiction ...

Harm reduction is the strategy of reducing the harms associated with drug use, not necessarily by reducing the amount that people use but by reducing the harms associated with use. Providing syringes ...

As in most of the modern world, Kenyans are not immune to partaking in pleasures that are ultimately harmful to our health. The temptations of the pleasures - whether it's alcohol, smoking or junk ...

This story originally published online at UNC Media Hub. After Bella Grumet, a UNC-Chapel Hill senior majoring in neuroscience, lost a close friend to an overdose last year, she was motivated to ...

The Trump administration is escalating its push against what has become a key part of the way states, localities and communities respond to the overdose epidemic: harm reduction. A public health ...

Ontario will replace nine supervised consumption sites with HART hubs, but critics warn the lack of harm reduction could ...

A man suffering from long-term drug use who could only walk with extreme difficulty. Photo by Griffin Jones on July 8, 2023. Half a dozen public health and addiction experts interviewed by Mission ...