Over the past four years, nearly 7,000 people have injected, smoked or otherwise used street drugs like fentanyl and cocaine ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will invest $100 million to improve homelessness, opioid addiction and ...

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 ...

Today’s post will be slightly different—related to drug policy, but also not. It’s about harm reduction and how the term has been applied to how we deal with the coronavirus. To begin with, harm ...

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 ...

More than 50 years after the United States government declared a global war on drugs, the crisis of illicit drug use and addiction is more prevalent than ever, on this, International Overdose ...

SEVEN NEWS. FENTANYL IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF OPIOID DEATHS IN NEW MEXICO, AND WHILE THE STATISTICS ARE ALARMING, ORGANIZATIONS ARE TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE STATE. ACTION SEVEN NEWS REPORTER ...

MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY. WE HAVE SEEN ALMOST, YOU KNOW, 500 PARTICIPANTS COME THROUGH HERE IN THE LAST, YOU KNOW, 3 OR 4 MONTHS FOOT TRAFFIC IS STEADY AND HOSPITALS ARE RELIEVED FROM SOME ...

The Trump administration is escalating its push against what has become a key part of the way states, localities and communities respond to the overdose epidemic: harm reduction. A public health ...