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 ...

October is National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, an opportunity to recognize the impact of substance use in the U.S. and ...

Blue cities are moving away from so-called harm reduction strategies in combating overdose deaths from use of hard drugs.

Opioids, including the best known—morphine, heroin and fentanyl—have been gaining popularity over the last few decades.

The Lurie administration is limiting the distribution of harm-reduction supplies, and otherwise appears to be pivoting from harm reduction as a key strategy for mitigating the dangers of drug ...

She was instrumental in helping promote wider use of needle exchanges, naloxone and tests to assist drug users in identifying ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boxes filled with tourniquets, sterile water, bagged cotton and all the necessary supplies for safe drug administration are neatly arranged on the table within the office space of the New Hampshire ...

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

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, ...

Oklahoma lawmakers legalized harm reduction programs in 2021, allowing the groups to possess sterile syringes without fear of legal trouble.