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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ending harm reduction funding endangers people with substance disorders in Milwaukee, removing the safety net that ...

Sheila Vakharia, who now works for the Drug Policy Alliance, began her career as a clinical social worker at a conventional addiction treatment center, where she soon became disenchanted. "Few of my ...

As the world marks World Vape Day 2026, Research Fellow with Shift THR Media, Marvelene Ekot, has called for a more pragmatic and evidence-driven conversation around tobacco harm reduction, arguing ...

President Joe Biden is sending his administration’s first national drug control strategy to Congress as the U.S. overdose death toll hit a new record of nearly 107,000 during the past 12 months. The ...

Harm reduction — an umbrella term that takes in a variety of practices intended to lessen the damaging effects of drug use — has never been an easy sell. “It’s always been kind of a political football ...

Lev’s reporting has explored Americans’ deadly hostility to addiction medications, subpar treatment offered in jails and prisons, shifts in the illicit drug supply and consumption behavior, ...

Tara Stamos of the Harm Reduction Coalition of San Diego hands out Narcan Nasal Spray to people living in a homeless encampment in downtown on Nov. 11, 2022. / Photo by Ariana Drehsler Sign up for The ...

The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria has warned that Nigeria may struggle to sustain gains in HIV prevention if adolescents and young people are not prioritised in the design and implementation of ...