A top Wu administration official indicated the city may be moving away from its harm reduction strategy as residents and politicians from Boston neighborhoods hurt by the Mass and Cass drug market ...

One hot summer evening in 2019, security called us out of our clinic located within the largest men’s shelter in Boston, Massachusetts: “Overdose, out front!” We grabbed the oxygen tank and emergency ...

Over the past decade, North America embraced two disastrous public health movements: pediatric gender medicine and “harm reduction” for drug use. Though seemingly unrelated, these movements are ...

#THRfacts campaign aims to educate the community about a science-based way to reduce smoking and raise awareness of the rising concerns over underground and unregulated tobacco and vapes. Today, many ...

The US Virgin Islands ends vehicle searches based on the smell of weed, the drug czar's office is reviewing Drug Free Community grants to ensure they don't promote "the radical left's agenda," and ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) study has found that harm reduction programs reduced hospitalizations and emergency department visits. MDHHS reports ...

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 ...

A main goal is to provide syringe exchanges to reduce the harm caused by drug use, but "harm reduction is so much more than just giving people sterile equipment," said executive director Mackenzie ...

SEATTLE – Gather Church, a ministry in Lewis County, Washington, today filed a lawsuit challenging a county ordinance that makes it nearly impossible for the church to fulfill a core part of its ...

Blue cities are moving away from so-called harm reduction strategies in combating overdose deaths from use of hard drugs. Harm reduction aims to decrease the negative consequences of risky behavior ...

The state's spending has faced criticism for diverting $45 million to hospital systems and for a township's misuse of funds on concerts. Advocates and officials stress that the money should fund ...

Refat Rasul Srejon, MPH, says reducing opioid-related emergency department (ED) visits among young adults requires strategies like medication-assisted treatment and targeted outreach. He discusses why ...