A new care center for homeless people on Los Angeles' infamous Skid Row embraces the principle of harm reduction, a more ...

Tobacco harm reduction has been immensely shaped by pioneering innovations that offer safer alternatives to conventional smoking, effectively transforming the landscape of nicotine consumption.

The efficacy of harm reduction as a whole is difficult to assess because the approach is general and encompasses multiple policies and programs. But a 2006 review of more than 650 scientific articles ...

Alarm is growing among harm reduction proponents that the Trump administration’s health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is shifting the nation’s strategy to tackle the drug crisis ...

Federal funding for harm reduction efforts amounts to less than 10% of the total annual allocation for substance use services, even after investments have almost doubled since 2020.

Harm reduction efforts also break down barriers, Weston said. They can then be a stepping stone for medication-assisted treatment like buprenorphine and methadone, Weston said, drugs that block ...

District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey’s “recovery first” ordinance advanced to the full 11-member Board of Supervisors today after a 3-0 vote at the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee. But ...

This demonstrates that the harm-reduction movement is more interested in normalizing drug use than mitigating its negative consequences. Meth-fueled orgies emerged as a policy issue in the mid-2010s , ...

Future Factors. Convenience store operators looking to stay ahead of the harm reduction trend should keep in mind that the term is evolving. “In sum, it now encapsulates not only the use of ...

The need for harm reduction services is apparent in Utah. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimates that 12% of the population uses an illegal substance, which equates to about 400,000 ...

Colorado harm reduction agencies look to more opioid overdose reversal drugs 02:32. Narcan is just one brand of a drug called Naloxone, a drug used to help revive patients who are in mid-opioid ...