Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a complex and challenging condition that affects millions of individuals worldwide. It is crucial to approach this issue with compassion, empathy, and a focus on harm ...

Driving cars. Having sex. And in the times of COVID-19, shaking hands. All these activities bear risk, yet they are fundamental to our everyday experiences. Few swear them off entirely and instead use ...

Like many Chattanoogans, cannabis store owner Elisha Millan doesn't smoke, use recreational drugs or take any products to "get high." When she founded Tennessee's first hemp dispensary — Grass Roots ...

Harm reduction is a public health approach that aims to help people with substance use disorders or other high-risk habits in a nonjudgmental way. Rather than condone or condemn their behavior, the ...

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 ...

In considering the use of a harm reduction model for those with loss of control eating behaviors, this post is a follow-up to last month’s post, "Cravings, Loss of Control, and Dietary Restraint." In ...

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 ...

In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs” and 52 years later the battle rages on – deadlier than ever. The crack era came and went in the 1980s, followed by the rural opioid crisis, ...

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Loftin Wilson, a harm reduction programs manager for the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, works on one of the coalition's syringe service programs. Credit: Photo courtesy of the subject This ...

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 ...

Public health workers say new restrictions on drug-checking supplies come as street drugs become more contaminated and unpredictable.