MEMORY LANE: Buncombe County homeless program manager Lacy Hoyle, left; former opioid response coordinator for Buncombe County Department of Health and Human Services Amy Upham, second from left; and ...

Smoking still kills nearly half a million Americans each year. And while overdose deaths have come down from their peak, they ...

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, ...

The Trump administration enacted policies that restricted the rights and public recognition of LGBTQIA+ people, including bans on transgender military service and a rollback of protections. According ...

Harm Reduction Sisters provides life-saving equipment for people struggling with substance use disorder. But its future is ...

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 ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s new harm reduction initiative is helping prevent needless deaths. In 2021, the Maryland Department of Health and the state police were confronting ...

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 ...

Harm reduction groups and health care workers helped avert the worst after Hurricane Helene. But what about the next emergency?

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 ...

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 ...