Harm reduction is an approach to drug use and addiction that emphasizes reducing the negative consequences associated with drug use. The concept often faces challenges or resistance, especially in ...

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 ...

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 ...

In my corner of the world—addiction treatment and recovery—we have a big problem. I’m not talking about fentanyl or the opioid epidemic. Or alcohol, cocaine, or methamphetamines. Yes, these are big ...

In partnership with the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative created a new infographic using data from the Big Cities Health Inventory, an open-source platform ...

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 ...

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 ...

West & Central Africa has reiterated the importance of Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) as a pragmatic, science-based public ...

In a special audio report, the Free Press takes readers behind the scenes of a project about a Detroiter who is addicted to drugs and is also saving the lives of other who are addicted. Last week, the ...