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

The Open Society Foundations (OSF), a grant-making network based in New York City, is a longtime proponent of harm reduction.

Two studies led by an opioid treatment program run by the University at Buffalo and UBMD Emergency Medicine have found that harm reduction vending machines installed across New York State are well ...

Harm reduction is having its moment in America. The doors of drug-related harm reduction have swung wide open after years of federal funding bans. Extensive opioid settlement payouts combined with an ...

Today’s post will be slightly different—related to drug policy, but also not. It’s about harm reduction and how the term has been applied to how we deal with the coronavirus. To begin with, harm ...

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 ...

There are no 'safe use guarantees', but it's possible to reduce harm.

As a cannabis epidemiologist with fifteen years of experience studying cannabis – and as a medical cannabis patient myself – I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how science assesses and labels ...

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

During National Non-Smoking Week, the Canadian Vaping Association is calling on policymakers, public health leaders, and Canadians to recognize vaping as an important harm reduction tool in reducing ...

A new study by UCLA and Kaiser Permanente Northwest's Center for Health Research demonstrates a health care approach matching ...