Harm reduction — an umbrella term that takes in a variety of practices intended to lessen the damaging effects of drug use — has never been an easy sell. “It’s always been kind of a political football ...

​A decade after Congress first allowed federal funding to support clean needle programs, the Trump administration is backing ...

Twice a week, Coleman Cox drives more than an hour into controversy. He's headed to Vinita, Oklahoma, in the northern part of the Cherokee reservation, in a van stocked with clean syringes. The ...

Two studies led by an opioid treatment program run by UB and UBMD Emergency Medicine have found that harm reduction vending machines installed across New York State are well utilized and provide ...

Over the past decade, overdose protections and programs like Project Weber-Renew have expanded, but with Trump back in office, this trend may be short lived. Employees with Project Weber-Renew in ...

State law protecting syringe exchange programs expires July 1, forcing groups to stop distribution or face jail.

The program for the Harm Reduction International Conference 2025 (HR25) is out! The conference will take place in Bogotá, Colombia on 27-30 April 2025 at the Agora Bogotá Convention Center. (And there ...

A group of academics and researchers is working hard to normalize the idea of radical harm reduction for children as young as ...

Hawaiʻi's statewide syringe exchange program has seen a decrease in exchanges due to changing patterns of substance use, but the program remains an important part of the state's public health system ...