Across the Bay Area, coroners are reporting about half as many overdose deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl than during ...

New Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson says recent reports regarding changes in the handling of public drug use cases – based on an ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Amid what feels like an ever-worsening drug crisis here, locals and politicians alike are fed up. Overdose death rates remain near all-time highs. The Tenderloin, a historic downtown ...

In single-story red brick building to the south of downtown Greensboro, Tanya Russell unpacks the contents of a brown paper bag. "Our kit has everything you need," she says. "It has sterile water, ...

Only halfway through the year, Cole County EMS has administered naloxone 43 times so far this year, compared to 59 times for all of 2022. Naloxone (often called its brand name Narcan) is a drug used ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Shelby County Health Department (SCHD), in partnership with the Tennessee Department of Health, is distributing free opioid overdose harm reduction kits throughout Shelby County while ...

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 ...

County Executive Steuart Pittman acknowledged Tuesday that “more listening needs to happen” after an Anne Arundel program stopped handing out crack pipes to Annapolis residents last week following a ...

Harm reduction is exactly what it sounds like: reducing the harm associated with using drugs through a variety of public health interventions. But the concept relies on more than these tools and ...