Lisa Raville works as the executive director of the Harm Reduction Action Center in Denver. (Sara Wilson/Colorado Newsline) A few days per week, Richard volunteers at the Harm Reduction Action Center ...
Local health officials fear an executive order dictating that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) can no longer fund harm reduction programs will accelerate the ...
Former Santa Cruz Police Chief Kevin Vogel’s recent disparaging comments about the Harm Reduction program in Santa Cruz are just plain wrong. As the former county health officer in charge of the ...
A new Michigan study is showing changes in the number of people dying from opioid overdoses and the branching positive impacts from harm reduction services. Harm reduction programs saved lives, ...
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 ...
Twice a week, Coleman Cox drives more than an hour into controversy. He's headed to Vinita, Oklahoma, in the northern part of the Cherokee reservation, in a van stocked with clean syringes. The ...
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 ...
“I died this weekend,” a client told me recently. I work at a harm reduction non-profit in Salt Lake City, and I wish I could say this was the only time I’d heard that statement. We serve people who ...
FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Fargo Cass Public Health has distributed more than 3 million syringes through its harm reduction program since launching in 2018, according to new data from the health ...
I am writing in response to recent coverage of the Fargo Cass Public Health harm reduction program in our city. The topics raised deserve serious discussion, but so do the facts. At some point, North ...