Stephen Murray’s work in harm reduction doesn’t end when he leaves the office at 5 p.m. As the Harm Reduction Program Manager at Boston Medical Center who runs the SafeSpot Overdose Hotline, he is on ...

Harm reduction workers who bring lived experience to harm reduction programs may themselves need support for a substance use ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lisa Raville works as the executive director of the Harm Reduction Action Center in Denver. (Sara Wilson/Colorado Newsline) A few ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

(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 ...

PATERSON — One by one, the unhoused drug users living in an encampment along freight railroad tracks in the city's 4th Ward trudged through a hole in the fence when they saw the harm reduction workers ...