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

The opportunity to see a doctor, to get a job, to get information and non-judgemental support. The opportunity to stay alive. Today, Martinez is the capacity building and Hepatitis C coordinator for ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. In 2023, Iowa received over $2.5 million in federal funding for overdose prevention activities. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to Bear With Me, a new interview show on politics from The Brown Daily Herald newsroom. I’m your host, Evan Tao. I’m a strong believer in the power of a conversation. My Brown education has ...

At some point, North Dakota needs to stop pretending addiction will magically disappear if we just shut our eyes — or the doors to services people rely on. Yet here we are, watching Commissioner ...

The Trump administration is wrong about a lot of things when it comes to LGBTQ+ health and well-being. They have attacked transgender medicine, disbanded federal HIV prevention offices, and even ...

Today we've been reporting on the Trump administration's executive order around homelessness. That order also calls for the elimination of federal funding for drug addiction programs that offer what's ...

The Phoenix City Council approved a controversial new law that puts new restrictions in place about providing medical care in ...

A harm reduction advocate is disappointed in the provincial government's decision to end the drug decriminalization project, calling it a step backwards.