Harm reduction is an innovative and adaptive strategy in public health that provides a pragmatic framework for minimizing the negative health impacts of tobacco consumption. It recognizes that while ...
Here are a few basic practices you should implement before, during, and after an event to keep yourself and others safe.
The Open Society Foundations (OSF), a grant-making network based in New York City, is a longtime proponent of harm reduction.
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 ...
The Phoenix City Council approved a controversial new law that puts new restrictions in place about providing medical care in ...
Two studies led by an opioid treatment program run by the University at Buffalo and UBMD Emergency Medicine have found that harm reduction vending machines installed across New York State are well ...
Clinical and behavioral studies are cornerstones of any Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) submission, from pharmacokinetic to actual use investigations. This webinar will explore the ...
The opioid crisis is one of the most urgent public health challenges in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. experienced a significant ...
In a pilot study of Penn undergraduates, 39% of respondents reported using alcohol or other recreational drugs for the express purpose of combating stress. Penn’s primary substance use resource hub is ...
Giving addicts syringes to shoot up was never a popular idea. It still isn’t. Despite medical authorities’ confident assertions that such programs dramatically cut down on disease transmission, ...
Loftin Wilson, a harm reduction programs manager for the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, works on one of the coalition's syringe service programs. Credit: Photo courtesy of the subject This ...