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

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 ...

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 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 ...

Washington will almost certainly try to claim credit for the decline in overdose deaths. But the evidence suggests multiple ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...