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 ...

Five decades after the initial ‘’war on drugs” campaign, the United States is losing the war and has been slow to get back to the war room and draft a new approach. Having lost major battles to ...

Excerpted from "The Harm Reduction Gap: Helping Individuals Left Behind by Conventional Drug Prevention and Abstinence-Only Addiction Treatment" by Sheila P. Vakharia ...

Substance use impacts many people in many different ways – and while studies show that it doesn’t always lead to addiction, experts agree that using substances can affect a person’s health and ...

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 ...

Harm reduction is having its moment in America. The doors of drug-related harm reduction have swung wide open after years of federal funding bans. Extensive opioid settlement payouts combined with an ...

Mary Pendery, before her sad demise at the hands of the Disease Theory Recently, an old friend of Mary Pendery's contacted me via e-mail. I was surprised to see Mary's ghost resurface this way. This ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The numbers are now frighteningly familiar: Last year more than 100,000 people died ...

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 ...

Harm reduction is a public health approach that aims to help people with substance use disorders or other high-risk habits in a nonjudgmental way. Rather than condone or condemn their behavior, the ...