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 ...

Disrupted treatment, unstable housing, and lasting trauma can compound a disaster’s toll — a pattern now emerging in communities recovering from Hurricane Helene.

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 ...

An addiction-services nonprofit approved by the city focuses on harm reduction for hard drug users — to the chagrin of some ...

People have long put their health—even their lives—at risk with behaviors and actions that aren't good for them. Adventures, experiments, and indulgences have all added risk to human life throughout ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brian, a patient at my clinic in Scott County, Ind., is one of many who helped me learn the difference between “do no harm” and “protect from harm.” I met him years after he had given up trying to ...

Bristol will treat drug use primarily as a health issue rather than a criminal justice issue.

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 ...