The Maryland Department of Health has scrubbed any mention of “harm reduction” from the state’s leading grant program for ...

President Joe Biden is sending his administration’s first national drug control strategy to Congress as the U.S. overdose death toll hit a new record of nearly 107,000 during the past 12 months. The ...

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 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Harm reduction advocates are implementing solidarity-based strategies for curbing drug overdoses in Minneapolis. This story was copublished and supported by the journalism nonprofit the Economic ...

Harm reduction is an innovative and adaptive strategy in public health that provides a pragmatic framework for minimizing the negative health impacts of tobacco consumption. It recognizes that while ...

MINOT — To understand why harm reduction works, as a public policy, we must first consider what doesn’t work. Prohibition doesn’t work. We tried it with alcohol, and it was one of the most spectacular ...

I am writing to bring attention to a pressing issue that I’ve seen in our community: the lack of support for harm reduction programs aimed at individuals dealing with substance use disorders in Salt ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominee for Secretary of the Department of ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. President Trump is threatening to withhold funds from supervised drug consumption sites and potentially pursue criminal penalties against them ...