The Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan evaluates how the U.S. military can better prevent and respond to ...

After rising exponentially since 1979, overdose rates have finally begun to decline, falling more than 29 percent since 2022.

In Duluth, Harm Reduction Sisters provides life-saving equipment for people in crisis. But its future is uncertain.

I would like to talk to you briefly today about an important concept in public policy and regulation, the idea of “harm reduction.” The idea of harm reduction sounds noncontroversial, or at least it ...

Harm reduction is exactly what it sounds like: reducing the harm associated with using drugs through a variety of public health interventions. But the concept relies on more than these tools and ...

The Biden administration is tackling the opioid crisis through harm reduction, a new approach to the nation’s drug policies that UB drug policy historian David Herzberg says could save thousands of ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Used syringes are discarded at a needle exchange clinic in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Used syringes are discarded at a needle exchange clinic in St. Johnsbury, ...

The Grayson County Health Department (GCHD) has released the locations of two additional free naloxone dispensary locations ...

The Graves County Health Department celebrated Friday the ribbon cutting of its new addition, GCHub. True to its title, the ...

As the overdose crisis in the United States continues — more than 100,000 people died of overdose in 2021, a new record — the practice of harm reduction is gaining new traction as a possible solution ...

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 ...