Probably the most controversial tenet of harm reduction is the acceptance that both licit and illicit substance use are part ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s new harm reduction initiative is helping prevent needless deaths. In 2021, the Maryland Department of Health and the state police were confronting ...

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 ...

Smoking still kills nearly half a million Americans each year. And while overdose deaths have come down from their peak, they ...

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 ...

To address the overdose crisis in the United States, the National Institutes of Health has established a research network that will test harm reduction strategies in different community settings to ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Amid what feels like an ever-worsening drug crisis here, locals and politicians alike are fed up. Overdose death rates remain near all-time highs. The Tenderloin, a historic downtown ...

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 ...

Overdose deaths in the U.S. have seen a significant decline, attributed at least in part to harm reduction strategies. The Trump administration proposes cuts to harm reduction funding, raising ...

Recognizing the public health emergency posed by opioid overdoses, there increasingly have been calls for a comprehensive approach to drug policy that includes a focuses on reducing harm for people ...

Harm reduction is an approach to treating those with alcohol and other substance-use problems that does not require patients to commit to complete abstinence before treatment begins. Instead, an array ...