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 ...

Quitting alcohol or drugs was not a top priority for people experiencing homelessness in a harm reduction treatment study, yet participants still reduced their use of both. A different approach than ...

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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. All around Seattle, families will gather around tables. But for too many of those families, there ...

Years ago, San Francisco made a commitment to reducing harms for residents who take drugs. In 1996, the Board of Supervisors committed to a policy of treatment on demand (TOD) to ensure that San ...

When Maia Szalavitz was in the throes of her drug addiction she was injecting speed balls, a mixture of heroin and cocaine, as much as 40 times a day. She is one of the lucky ones who survived her ...

Harm reduction programs like syringe exchanges and access to naloxone can combat rural opioid crisis, but moral biases, ...

A new study from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health explores a theoretical framework for implementing an alcohol reduction strategy to support U.S. college students at high risk for ...

The King County Crisis Care Centers Levy is meant, in part, to help tackle the region’s rampant drug addiction crisis. But there’s a detail hidden in the 141-page plan. It reveals the county will ...

September is Recovery Month, a time to celebrate people who’ve overcome their addictions and honor those we’ve lost to overdose. Overdose is a leading cause of death for people forced to live outside, ...

New York City is in the throes of a deadly heroin epidemic cutting across boundaries of race and class. The death toll from overdoses now outpaces that from homicides. On Staten Island alone, overdose ...