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 ...

Harm reduction workers who bring lived experience to harm reduction programs may themselves need support for a substance use ...

Access to harm reduction programs such as syringe exchange is lowest in rural and suburban areas, where rates of addiction to heroin and other opioids are on the rise, according to a study led by ...

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Most life-saving medicine is uncontroversial and ubiquitous. Overdose prevention should be treated the same way.

Groups dedicated to keeping drug users healthy — and alive — have thrived during the past decade to counter the staggering toll of the nation’s overdose crisis. They hit the streets to distribute ...

In small towns across South Carolina, the signs of the opioid crisis are written in the obituaries. Yet for all the heartbreak that addiction has brought to rural America, the most effective tool we ...

LEAD programs provide law enforcement alternatives to punitive action for addressing low-level, non-violent crimes that ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ore. - Connecting Point, a mobile navigation program serving communities throughout Douglas County, continues ...

Ambassadors, like Delores Omole, are trained in harm reduction strategies and leverage their street smarts to connect ...

Fargo Cass Public Health leaders sat down with The Forum to explain how the program at the Harm Reduction Center works. North Dakota law requires that when syringes like this one are distributed ...