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 ...

“Harm reduction” interventions for substance use – measures like needle exchange programs and methadone distribution that aim to reduce the adverse effects of substance use, rather than punish or ...

Washington state’s Substance Use Recovery Services Advisory Committee, or SURSAC, heard a presentation at Monday’s meeting ...

Both the U.S. and the Netherlands wrestle with the politics of drug use, but their approaches diverge in key ways that ...

When you're scrolling through TikTok or swiping through Instagram, you might see something unusual: Videos showing how to use naloxone, an opioid overdose treatment, posts about testing drugs and ...

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 ...

Queer Kentucky, an LGBTQ+ journalism nonprofit, recently placed 12 self-serve harm reduction lockers across the state with the goal of keeping Kentuckians safer. Though unassuming at first glance, ...

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LOS ANGELES (LAPost.com) — On a litter-strewn L.A. Street, dozens of people line up. Some are behaving erratically, some stare at the ground ahead of them. Some smoke crack cocaine or inject drugs on ...

San Francisco is expanding a harm reduction program inside permanent supportive housing while cutting back on street-level ...

Rowan County Public Health is inviting community members to attend the upcoming Substance Use Forum on Oct. 20, from 5-8 p.m. at the Rowan County Community Center, located at 1935 Jake Alexander Blvd.