Experts suggest that a policy “sweet spot” is needed to both reduce harm among adult smokers and prevent vaping uptake among ...

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

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 ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. NINA MOINI: In Minnesota, deadly drug overdoses doubled between 2018 and 2023. And in Minneapolis, those deaths are disproportionately represented. In 2022 ...

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 ...

In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs” and 52 years later the battle rages on – deadlier than ever. The crack era came and went in the 1980s, followed by the rural opioid crisis, ...

New Zealand has been punished for achieving exactly what the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control treaty has mandated, ...

The Trump administration is escalating its push against what has become a key part of the way states, localities and communities respond to the overdose epidemic: harm reduction. A public health ...

Mainline staff prepare syringes of “fake heroin” during a safe-injection training at the Mainline offices in Amsterdam on Thursday, March 6, 2025. Mainline is a harm reduction organization in the ...

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 ...