Gary Sweeney may be in a minority among people who quit smoking in his community in County Donegal, Ireland, but ...

Harm reduction is an innovative and adaptive strategy in public health that provides a pragmatic framework for minimizing the negative health impacts of tobacco consumption. It recognizes that while ...

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 ...

Overdose deaths in the U.S. have seen a significant decline, attributed at least in part to harm reduction strategies. The Trump administration proposes cuts to harm reduction funding, raising ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Over the past four years, nearly 7,000 people have injected, smoked or otherwise used street drugs like fentanyl ...

Giving addicts syringes to shoot up was never a popular idea. It still isn’t. Despite medical authorities’ confident assertions that such programs dramatically cut down on disease transmission, ...

The opioid crisis is one of the most urgent public health challenges in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. experienced a significant ...

A new Michigan study is showing changes in the number of people dying from opioid overdoses and the branching positive impacts from harm reduction services. Harm reduction programs saved lives, ...

Local health officials fear an executive order dictating that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) can no longer fund harm reduction programs will accelerate the ...

Detroit — Twenty five harm reduction stations have been installed throughout Detroit to provide residents with free supplies to reduce opioid overdoses, as well as reduce the transmission of HIV and ...