Experts suggest that a policy “sweet spot” is needed to both reduce harm among adult smokers and prevent vaping uptake among ...
West & Central Africa has reiterated the importance of Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) as a pragmatic, science-based public ...
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 ...
An overdose prevention center in New York City (OnPoint NYC) Source: Seth Wenig/AP Photo/Alamy By Abdullah Shihipar, Alexandria Macmadu, Ph.D., and Brandon Marshall, Ph.D. Drug policy in the United ...
Create an account or log in to save stories. NINA MOINI: In Minnesota, deadly drug overdoses doubled between 2018 and 2023. And in Minneapolis, those deaths are disproportionately represented. In 2022 ...
In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs” and 52 years later the battle rages on – deadlier than ever. The crack era came and went in the 1980s, followed by the rural opioid crisis, ...
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 ...
Mainline staff prepare syringes of “fake heroin” during a safe-injection training at the Mainline offices in Amsterdam on Thursday, March 6, 2025. Mainline is a harm reduction organization in the ...
FOR A HISTORY of recent drugs policy in America, look to a decommissioned church in Philadelphia. Still home to a forlorn-looking organ, it is now Prevention Point, a non-profit trying to help addicts ...