Alarm is growing among harm reduction proponents that the Trump administration’s health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is shifting the nation’s strategy to tackle the drug crisis ...
Rebel Recovery Florida, a recovery community organization established in 2016, offers free peer recovery support services, education, and advocacy to individuals affected by drug use and those at risk ...
District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey’s “recovery first” ordinance advanced to the full 11-member Board of Supervisors today after a 3-0 vote at the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee. But ...
September is National Recovery Month, a time to promote evidence-based treatment and recovery practices for substance use disorders. It is also a time to recognize the vital role of our collective ...
Virtue Recovery Center understands that not everyone is ready or able to quit substance use immediately and is implementing harm reduction strategies to save lives and reduce the risks of substance ...
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 ...
Lisa Raville works as the executive director of the Harm Reduction Action Center in Denver. (Sara Wilson/Colorado Newsline) A few days per week, Richard volunteers at the Harm Reduction Action Center ...
A drug recovery group in El Paso, Texas, that received a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services as part of the Biden administration's "harm reduction" program distributes crack pipes ...
WESTFIELD — Westfield substance abuse outreach coordinator Kimberly Slade is in talks to establish a peer recovery center in the city, a medical facility run by people who’ve experienced addiction.
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Cleaning up Kensington is a top priority for new Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker. But now, a nonprofit providing harm reduction resources to residents is being forced to leave ...
One admirer of Carrie Fisher wrote movingly on Sobriety for Women of Fisher's death, age 60, last December, as a role model for recovery. A Princess of Substance Abuse Recovery and Role Model When I ...