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Harm reduction — an umbrella term that takes in a variety of practices intended to lessen the damaging effects of drug use — has never been an easy sell. “It’s always been kind of a political football ...

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But some red states are responding by boosting their own funding for those harm-reduction programs. In GOP-led Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill into law legalizing test strips that ...

We Heart Seattle founder Andrea Suarez says the state is investigating her volunteer needle cleanup group while the ...

Harm reduction initiatives, like syringe services programs, can reduce HIV transmission among people who inject drugs. A recent executive order threatens such programs. (Photo by Robert ...

TORONTO, Jan. 13, 2025 /CNW/ - A new survey shows public support in Ontario for harm reduction programs and services outweighs opposition by more than two to one. Fifty per cent of Ontarians support ...

Twice a week, Coleman Cox drives more than an hour into controversy. He's headed to Vinita, Oklahoma, in the northern part of the Cherokee reservation, in a van stocked with clean syringes. The ...

The program for the Harm Reduction International Conference 2025 (HR25) is out! The conference will take place in Bogotá, Colombia on 27-30 April 2025 at the Agora Bogotá Convention Center. (And there ...

Two studies led by an opioid treatment program run by UB and UBMD Emergency Medicine have found that harm reduction vending machines installed across New York State are well utilized and provide ...

MONTREAL — The Workforce cohort, an initiative that provides prescribed alternatives (PA) for harm reduction workers who themselves have a substance use disorder (SUD), is being piloted by AVI Health ...