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 ...
Earlier this year, the Trump administration ended federal funding for test strips used to detect deadly contaminants in ...
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Research shows extensive benefits from syringe exchange and other harm reduction programs. But misguided efforts to ban common sense care continue. In the midst of a nationwide, unprecedented drug ...
An overdose prevention center in New York City (OnPoint NYC) Source: Seth Wenig/AP Photo/Alamy By Abdullah Shihipar, Alexandria Macmadu, Ph.D., and Brandon Marshall, Ph.D. Drug policy in the United ...
Katherine Dunham is a harm reductionist and researcher at the People, Place and Health Collective at the Brown University School of Public Health. In January 2022, Rhode Island joined the national ...
Maintaining harm reduction services in the Australian Capital Territory could deliver more than $250 million in health and societal benefits between 2026 and 2030 and avert dozens of overdose deaths, ...
Every two weeks, Abby Hampton gets a delivery to her home in rural Amboy, a little more than 100 miles west of Chicago’s Loop. On a recent Wednesday, she was able to choose from the supplies neatly ...