LOS ANGELES - One of the most controversial elements of Housing First is its policy of No Barrier/Harm Reduction for housing ...

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 ...

The argument over how society should respond to addiction is usually framed in medical or political terms, but beneath it ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The increasingly unregulated global drug supply has contributed to unprecedented harms, including rising rates of overdose, and death. Safer supply ...

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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The opioid crisis is one of the most urgent public health challenges in the United States. According to the Centers for ...

Every Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Johns Hopkins undergraduates can be found in East Baltimore standing in front of "the Lighthouse" with a metal cart. If you walk up and say hi, ...