Harm reduction is mercy translated into public reason. It refuses to abandon those who have not yet succeeded in saving themselves. It embodies what the theologian Paul Tillich called “the courage to ...
Every year, thousands of Americans die from drug overdoses in places where the nearest ambulance is 20 minutes away, the ...
Local health officials fear an executive order dictating that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) can no longer fund harm reduction programs will accelerate the ...
Access to harm reduction programs such as syringe exchange is lowest in rural and suburban areas, where rates of addiction to heroin and other opioids are on the rise, according to a study led by ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EMS ambulance crew working to revive person from drug overdose The Trump administration is wrong about a lot of things when it ...
Samson Tafolo, left, and Crushow Herring, in knit hat, distribute harm reduction supplies from the Sidewalk Project on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles on March 26, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles ...
LOWELL — There’s never been a safe injection site in the city of Lowell, but to make sure that remains the case, Councilors Corey Robinson and Erik Gitschier put a motion on Tuesday’s agenda to have ...
Fargo Cass Public Health leaders sat down with The Forum to explain how the program at the Harm Reduction Center works. North Dakota law requires that when syringes like this one are distributed ...
A police unit that connects people with recovery programs is expanding from Mass. and Cass to encompass the entire city. The ...
"It was an important step on a long pathway," said Robert Heimer, professor of epidemiology and pharmacology at the Yale ...
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