Harm reduction is an approach to drug use and addiction that emphasizes reducing the negative consequences associated with drug use. The concept often faces challenges or resistance, especially in ...

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 ...

World AIDS Day established in 1988 and observed annually on Dec, 1, a day to commemorate the 42 million people globally who have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the epidemic, and ...

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 ...

This story originally published online at UNC Media Hub. After Bella Grumet, a UNC-Chapel Hill senior majoring in neuroscience, lost a close friend to an overdose last year, she was motivated to ...

Topics for discussion may include how current drug control policies influence the health outcomes of individuals and communities of color who experience mass incarceration, and strategies to mitigate ...

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 ...

Recognizing the public health emergency posed by opioid overdoses, there increasingly have been calls for a comprehensive approach to drug policy that includes a focuses on reducing harm for people ...

Hooray for Santa Cruz. The time is way overdue for some common sense. The HARM reduction coalition needs to be dissolved. Needles found on the our beaches, parks and sidewalks are unacceptable. Drug ...

Communities and people in Indiana are adversely affected by substance use disorders. In Indiana, 1 in 12 people meet criteria for a SUD the term used in the medical field for drug and alcohol abuse ...