Last year state lawmakers gave $45M from an opioid settlement fund to four hospital systems. A new bill would restore the ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has invested $100 million in a pilot program in eight U.S. cities focused on court-ordered treatment, psychiatric care, crisis intervention, and ...

Blue cities are moving away from so-called harm reduction strategies in combating overdose deaths from use of hard drugs. Harm reduction aims to decrease the negative consequences of risky behavior ...

One in nine people in prisons globally have a history of injecting drug use and their risk of HIV, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis is up to 45 times higher than in the general population. Yet access ...

Amid a nationwide opioid and addiction crisis, Boulder Community Health is trying a new way of distributing harm-reduction supplies to the public: a vending machine. BCH’s vending machine, which has ...

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

Smokefree products are picking up speed in the tobacco business. The race is on for success in harm reduction: encouraging smokers to switch completely to reduced risk alternatives. Evidence of this ...

Maintaining harm reduction services in the Australian Capital Territory could deliver more than $250 million in health and ...

One county in Colorado has committed to investing more than $4 million into opioid prevention, treatment and recovery. It's ...

“I died this weekend,” a client told me recently. I work at a harm reduction non-profit in Salt Lake City, and I wish I could say this was the only time I’d heard that statement. We serve people who ...

A main goal is to provide syringe exchanges to reduce the harm caused by drug use, but "harm reduction is so much more than just giving people sterile equipment," said executive director Mackenzie ...

A NEW toxicological review published by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) raises concerns that current discussions on ...