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

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 ...

Peoria Proud and the JOLT foundation signed a letter, along with 100 other non-profit organizations, asking the Illinois ...

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 ...

The UChicago Harm Reduction Project and the Pozen Center hosted speakers addressing the war on drugs and the overdose crisis at an event last month. The UChicago Harm Reduction Project (UCHP) and the ...

"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 ...

Harm reduction is an innovative and adaptive strategy in public health that provides a pragmatic framework for minimizing the negative health impacts of tobacco consumption. It recognizes that while ...

As temperatures hover in the single digits and snow continues to blanket large swaths of the state, lawmakers are considering a “squatter” bill that some advocates say will only add to the state’s ...

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 ...

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Wednesday he is modifying the city's policy of handing out clean drug use supplies in an effort to combat the fentanyl crisis. "Fentanyl has changed the game ...

Debra Stacy a white flag coordinator with the Homelessness Coalition of Southern Indiana, asks lawmakers to reconsider a "squatter" bill on Jan. 15, 2025. (Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle) ...