After rising exponentially since 1979, overdose rates have finally begun to decline, falling more than 29 percent since 2022.

The Trump administration is overhauling federal addiction policy and moving away from harm reduction strategies through steps ...

District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey’s “recovery first” ordinance advanced to the full 11-member Board of Supervisors today after a 3-0 vote at the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee. But ...

In Duluth, Harm Reduction Sisters provides life-saving equipment for people in crisis. But its future is uncertain.

There are many different ways to quantify the opioid crisis. The obvious is the dramatic rise in deaths from overdoses. Let’s not overlook the number of overdoses themselves – often as recorded by ...

A man suffering from long-term drug use who could only walk with extreme difficulty. Photo by Griffin Jones on July 8, 2023. As San Francisco politicians increasingly embrace abstinence-first ...

Progressive “harm reduction” advocates have insisted for decades that active users should take a central role in crafting drug policy. While this belief is profoundly reckless—akin to letting drunk ...

As opioids continue to drive overdose deaths, a new study suggests that making medical cannabis available and affordable can ...

Samhsa said funding cannot be used to purchase or distribute fentanyl test strips or other drug test kits ...

The Cyprus addiction treatment authority is stepping up harm reduction policies as new synthetic opioids, polydrug use and widening inequalities increase drug-related risks, the organisation said on ...

Over the past decade, North America embraced two disastrous public health movements: pediatric gender medicine and “harm reduction” for drug use. Though seemingly unrelated, these movements are ...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — The Baltimore City government’s expansion of drug harm reduction efforts may have a limited impact on overdose death rates, according to some recent studies. Baltimore City won ...