For years, prevention specialists with Face to Face have given harm reduction tools to keep clients safe, including the overdose reversal medication, naloxone. The numbers show that outreach is ...

Access to harm reduction programs such as syringe exchange is lowest in rural and suburban areas, where rates of addiction to heroin and other opioids are on the rise, according to a study led by ...

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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 ...

Susan Ousterman remembers her son Tyler as quiet, curious and “with a smile that lit up the room.” He loved nature, skateboarding and was a talented percussionist. He also struggled with an opioid ...

(The Center Square) – West Virginia State senators have introduced two bills targeting harm reduction in the state. The proposed legislation would make on-site methadone treatment programs illegal as ...

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data included some good news for the Mountain State, as numbers from October ...

Fargo Cass Public Health leaders sat down with The Forum to explain how the program at the Harm Reduction Center works. North Dakota law requires that when syringes like this one are distributed ...

LOWELL — There’s never been a safe injection site in the city of Lowell, but to make sure that remains the case, Councilors Corey Robinson and Erik Gitschier put a motion on Tuesday’s agenda to have ...

In small towns across South Carolina, the signs of the opioid crisis are written in the obituaries. Yet for all the heartbreak that addiction has brought to rural America, the most effective tool we ...

The city’s health department will now include a mail-based delivery option for Long Beach residents seeking harm-reduction ...