Over the past four years, nearly 7,000 people have injected, smoked or otherwise used street drugs like fentanyl and cocaine ...

Across the Bay Area, coroners are reporting about half as many overdose deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl than during the peak of the crisis in 2023. In part, public health experts ...

The tiny vial and syringe sitting on Kim Brown’s kitchen table may not look like much, but to many, it’s something that can make a big impact in the war on opioids. “That’s really all you need to save ...

The Open Society Foundations (OSF), a grant-making network based in New York City, is a longtime proponent of harm reduction.

The Phoenix City Council approved a controversial new law that puts new restrictions in place about providing medical care in ...

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 ...

Groups dedicated to keeping drug users healthy — and alive — have thrived during the past decade to counter the staggering toll of the nation’s overdose crisis. They hit the streets to distribute ...

Mecosta County and District Health Department #10 are inviting applications for funding aimed at opioid prevention and ...

This month's Group Chat features a discussion on reproductive health, harm reduction and community care. There are few words that polarize people as much as abortion. But how do the people who provide ...

Narcan is just one brand of a drug called Naloxone, a drug used to help revive patients who are in mid-opioid overdose, essentially bringing them back from the brink of death. This tool is so useful ...

At the Harm Reduction Coalition of Santa Cruz County’s mobile syringe clinic, a single lamp shines a bright circle over folding tables stacked with boxes of soap, toothpaste, electrolytes, syringes, ...