On January 13 the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report analyzing three policy approaches to the ...

Across the Bay Area, coroners are reporting about half as many overdose deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl than during ...

Smokefree products are picking up speed in the tobacco business. The race is on for success in harm reduction: encouraging smokers to switch completely to reduced risk alternatives. Evidence of this ...

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 ...

In a pilot study of Penn undergraduates, 39% of respondents reported using alcohol or other recreational drugs for the express purpose of combating stress. Penn’s primary substance use resource hub is ...

The Baltimore City government’s expansion of drug harm reduction efforts may have a limited impact on overdose death rates, according to some recent studies. Baltimore won nearly $700 million in ...

In the landscape of addiction treatment, we often find ourselves searching for approaches that honor the fundamental human need for connection. Harm reduction, frequently misunderstood, offers more ...

Once considered a regional problem, methamphetamine-related overdose deaths have risen across every U.S. Census division, ...

Blue cities are moving away from so-called harm reduction strategies in combating overdose deaths from use of hard drugs. Harm reduction aims to decrease the negative consequences of risky behavior ...

Ahead of International Overdose Awareness Day Sunday, Berkshire County advocates hit the streets of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to promote safe use and harm reduction. “We just had somebody that ...

Tobacco use remains one of the most pressing public health challenges of our time, responsible for more than 8 million deaths annually worldwide. Despite decades of anti-smoking campaigns, over 1.1 ...