Over the past four years, nearly 7,000 people have injected, smoked or otherwise used street drugs like fentanyl and cocaine ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will invest $100 million to improve homelessness, opioid addiction and ...

Today’s post will be slightly different—related to drug policy, but also not. It’s about harm reduction and how the term has been applied to how we deal with the coronavirus. To begin with, harm ...

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 ...

More than 50 years after the United States government declared a global war on drugs, the crisis of illicit drug use and addiction is more prevalent than ever, on this, International Overdose ...

As a cannabis epidemiologist with fifteen years of experience studying cannabis – and as a medical cannabis patient myself – I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how science assesses and labels ...

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 ...

Dying, nearly dying or jail — these were my only outcomes, I was told, if I were to have a sip of alcohol or experiment with any other drug. In high school health class, I remember playing an online ...

The Trump administration is escalating its push against what has become a key part of the way states, localities and communities respond to the overdose epidemic: harm reduction. A public health ...

MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY. WE HAVE SEEN ALMOST, YOU KNOW, 500 PARTICIPANTS COME THROUGH HERE IN THE LAST, YOU KNOW, 3 OR 4 MONTHS FOOT TRAFFIC IS STEADY AND HOSPITALS ARE RELIEVED FROM SOME ...