'Ugly language' and nervous funders: Inside the Trump administration’s attack on harm reduction

When President Donald Trump’s administration began its shakeup of the federal government, purging online data sets and ...

I’ve dedicated 50 years to drug research – this is how the UK is getting everything wrong

Drug-related deaths continue to rise while Britain doubles down on a failed strategy of prohibition and punishment. The ...
Forbes

Harm Reduction: An Innovative Approach To Reducing Risk

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 ...
STAT

There’s a real risk that harm reduction could be a fad

Harm reduction is having its moment in America. The doors of drug-related harm reduction have swung wide open after years of federal funding bans. Extensive opioid settlement payouts combined with an ...
KOAT Albuquerque

Harm Reduction approach to save lives from fentanyl

SEVEN NEWS. FENTANYL IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF OPIOID DEATHS IN NEW MEXICO, AND WHILE THE STATISTICS ARE ALARMING, ORGANIZATIONS ARE TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE STATE. ACTION SEVEN NEWS REPORTER ...
Psychology Today

Harm Reduction

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 ...
fox6now

Legal Action of Wisconsin overdose training, 'harm reduction approach'

MILWAUKEE - Fentanyl has killed more than 4,000 Wisconsinites in just the last eight years. Attorneys took a step Tuesday, June 13 to learn how to save a life. Attorneys with Legal Action of Wisconsin ...
The Star on MSN

Harm reduction society urges Parliament to rethink tobacco reforms

The Harm Reduction Society of Kenya hasraised concerns over several provisions contained in the Tobacco Control(Amendment) Bill, 2024, warning lawmakers that some of the proposed measurescould ...
Science Daily

Researchers show why cannabis policies should shift to a harm reduction, health promotion approach to safeguard public health

A new paper explains why there needs to be a shift in cannabis policies to a public health approach as opposed to the prevailing, more punitive approach that pushes abstinence instead of public ...
extension.purdue.edu

Harm Reduction Brief

Communities and people in Indiana are adversely affected by substance use disorders. In Indiana, 1 in 12 people meet criteria for a SUD the term used in the medical field for drug and alcohol abuse ...