Join the conversation on public health, compassion and community at Harm Reduction 101: Truth or Myth, Reducing Stigma, a free educational event taking place Thursday, Aug. 7, at 5:30 p.m. in McIntosh ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. NINA MOINI: In Minnesota, deadly drug overdoses doubled between 2018 and 2023. And in Minneapolis, those deaths are disproportionately represented. In 2022 ...

Harm reduction advocates are implementing solidarity-based strategies for curbing drug overdoses in Minneapolis. This story was copublished and supported by the journalism nonprofit the Economic ...

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

Rhetoric from the White House risks growing misconceptions of what harm reduction is and, significantly, what it is not.

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 ...

San Francisco, Philadelphia and others are retreating from “harm reduction” strategies that have helped reduce deaths but which critics, including Trump, say have contributed to pervasive public drug ...

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 ...

The opioid crisis is one of the most urgent public health challenges in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. experienced a significant ...

NEW YORK — Shawn has spent the better part of the last hour injecting fentanyl. But he is not in any danger: After a brief scare, when his heart rate dropped considerably, the pulse oximeter on his ...

MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley and the Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Behavioral Health Services have announced the placement of eight additional ...

Local health officials fear an executive order dictating that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) can no longer fund harm reduction programs will accelerate the ...