Over the past four years, nearly 7,000 people have injected, smoked or otherwise used street drugs like fentanyl and cocaine ...

January is Substance Use Disorder Treatment Month, which is designed to raise awareness about those suffering with substance ...

Maintaining harm reduction services in the Australian Capital Territory could deliver more than $250 million in health and ...

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 ...

MINOT — To understand why harm reduction works, as a public policy, we must first consider what doesn’t work. Prohibition doesn’t work. We tried it with alcohol, and it was one of the most spectacular ...

The Open Society Foundations (OSF), a grant-making network based in New York City, is a longtime proponent of harm reduction.

It’s last call for San Francisco’s government hooch. A COVID-era program that guzzled $5 million of taxpayer money annually ...

Like many who have endured childhood trauma, Shannon Hicks turned to drugs at an early age. Pregnant by 16 and a mother of two by 19, she was married and living in her first home — believing she was ...

And this is what harm reduction is all about — minimizing harm, reducing the negative impact addiction has over someone’s life, and keeping people alive long enough for them to get help. Mary had ...

Beetham, T. (2019). Buprenorphine prior authorization removal: Low hanging fruit in the opioid overdose crisis. Harvard Public Health Review, 25. 5. Bell, J., Reed, K ...

Two studies led by an opioid treatment program run by the University at Buffalo and UBMD Emergency Medicine have found that harm reduction vending machines installed across New York State are well ...

I'll never forget meeting Mary outside of a talk I was giving in Ohio, a state that is at the eye of the storm when it comes to the opiate overdose epidemic. She came up to me afterward and asked me ...