Caracole in Cincinnati introduced the machines in Ohio as an always-open, judgment-free doorway to connection, care and ...

Twice a week, Coleman Cox drives more than an hour into controversy. He's headed to Vinita, Oklahoma, in the northern part of the Cherokee reservation, in a van stocked with clean syringes. The ...

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 ...

A central challenge in the opioid crisis in the US has been the underuse of lifesaving treatment and harm reduction programs. Conventional explanations focus on limited access to care when services ...

When President Donald Trump’s administration began its shakeup of the federal government, purging online data sets and ...

Drugs and the consequences of addiction are woven into the fabric of Jamie Madden’s life. Her earliest memory is of standing ...

Nearly 500,000 syringes distributed in 2024, with similar numbers in 2025 ...

La Plata County Public Health Department’s Harm Reduction program is a response to the rise in opioid-related overdoses both nationally and within La Plata County. Overdose deaths have more than ...

The program for the Harm Reduction International Conference 2025 (HR25) is out! The conference will take place in Bogotá, Colombia on 27-30 April 2025 at the Agora Bogotá Convention Center. (And there ...

NOW IT NEEDS HELP TO KEEP THE MISSION GOING. BUT FIRST, THE FUTURE OF PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO HELP PEOPLE STRUGGLING WITH SUBSTANCE ABUSE HANG IN THE BALANCE AFTER FUNDING CUTS. THE SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND ...