As the overdose crisis has climbed to a tragic 100,000 deaths per year, momentum is growing for the public health solution to the overdose crisis: harm reduction. Our current system fuels the crisis ...

Neurodiversity and neurodivergence are terms people tend to use interchangeably even though they have different implications. Neurodiversity is an inclusive term meaning that, just as there are many ...

Harm reduction is exactly what it sounds like: reducing the harm associated with using drugs through a variety of public health interventions. But the concept relies on more than these tools and ...

Harm reduction has long been considered a nonjudgmental, evidence-based approach to drug use that reduces overdose deaths and infectious disease—adverse consequences exacerbated by the war on drugs.

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The nation’s opioid epidemic, which was initially assumed to have peaked in 2017, was briefly eclipsed by all the attention around the COVID-19 pandemic. But the country slowly emerges from the ...

Long Beach residents will have the opportunity to learn more about the city’s opioid crisis and how to do their part in reducing related harm in their communities. The Department of Health and Human ...

A study published in the Harm Reduction Journal identifies critical factors and strategies for expanding low-barrier wound care services for people who use drugs (PWUD). The research comes at a ...

Communities and people in Indiana are adversely affected by substance use disorders. In Indiana, 1 in 12 people meet criteria for a SUD the term used in the medical field for drug and alcohol abuse ...