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 ...

Research shows extensive benefits from syringe exchange and other harm reduction programs. But misguided efforts to ban common sense care continue. In the midst of a nationwide, unprecedented drug ...

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A new Michigan study is showing changes in the number of people dying from opioid overdoses and the branching positive impacts from harm reduction services. Harm reduction programs saved lives, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opioids, including the best known — morphine, heroin and fentanyl — have been gaining popularity over the last few decades. Although officially banned, these painkillers still find their way into ...

Katherine Dunham is a harm reductionist and researcher at the People, Place and Health Collective at the Brown University School of Public Health. In January 2022, Rhode Island joined the national ...

Ed Richardson waits for people to pass by an outreach table set up on South Pulaski Road near West Congress Parkway on May 12, 2023. At public outreach sessions like this one, passers-by can receive ...

Maintaining harm reduction services in the Australian Capital Territory could deliver more than $250 million in health and societal benefits between 2026 and 2030 and avert dozens of overdose deaths, ...