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The harm reduction debate isn’t exchange or nothing

Needle exchange programs are one of the most well-known, and subsequently most controversial, forms of harm reduction in addiction medicine. These programs provide clean needles an...

Addiction Is Not a Moral Failure: Why Harm Reduction Matters

Addiction is a health condition, not a moral failing, and harm reduction helps save lives while connecting people to care and support. The post Addiction Is Not a Moral Failure: Wh...

HSE initiative aims to combat drug harm at festivals

The HSE is encouraging festival goers to interact with its volunteers at upcoming events, as part of an initiative on reducing harm for people who take substances at events.

Needle exchange programs treat the symptom, not the disease

Needle exchange programs are one of the most well-known, and subsequently most controversial, forms of harm reduction in addiction medicine. These programs provide clean needles an...

A Federal Policy Is Complicating How Organizations Battle the Opioid Crisis

Drug test strips are credited with saving lives, but a new policy will limit how funds can be used for them. Advocates of harm reduction strategies who responded to a mass overdose...

New Jersey county launches first harm reduction vending machine

Bristol declared ‘city of harm reduction’ as Greens seek less punitive drug policy

Councillors pass motion that paves way to setting up drugs-consumption facility where users can be helped and treatedUK politics live – latest updatesBristol has been formally decl...

People caught with drugs can be referred to health system under new scheme

New approach is part of wider plan to reduce drug-related harm and support people to access help at an earlier stage

Facility Offers Free Lifesaving Overdose Reversal Kits

WANTED OR NOT – Aug. 2, 2026 – “Sometimes people are not ready to stop yet, so if they are going to be using, we want them to be as safe as possible,” said Lora Nesting, peer recov...

New York Centers Allow Heroin and Crack Use 

VIDEO – THE HARLEM SHUFFLE – Aug. 7, 2026 – In a back room behind a colorful facade in northern Manhattan, drug users are smoking crack while nearby cubicles stand ready for heroin...

Vermont’s opiate policy is killing us

Vermont has embraced harm reduction while opiate deaths climb far higher than in poorer, more punitive states. Read the story on VTDigger here: Vermont’s opiate policy is killing...

A new drug referral scheme kicked in today: Will it reach who it needs to?

The new Health Referral Scheme shifts drug policy from prosecution to support, but its rollout and eligibility rules may end up leaving those facing the greatest harms behind.

New York reports 45% drop in drug overdose deaths

As public health officials observed International Overdose Awareness Day, reports indicated a 12.3% decrease in U.S. overdose deaths and a 45% decline in New York State due to sign...

Four Four & HSE Survey Reveals Concerns Over Drug Trends, Travel Risks and Harm Reduction

As Electric Picnic gets underway this weekend, the HSE is on site with more than 50 trained Harm Reduction Volunteers, providing outreach support, four Drugs.ie surrender bins acro...

To Find Honest Talk About Drugs, Go to a Music Festival

A reporter and photographer camped out at a four-day rave to see harm reduction policy carried out in real time.

At Shambhala Music Festival, a Plan To Make Drugs Like Ketamine and MDMA Safer

Most raves turn a blind eye to drugs. At Shambhala, free testing offers peace of mind — but can’t eliminate risk altogether.

‘A message of hope’

HOPE NOT DOPE – July 8, 2026 – Using money from opioid settlements, Albany County has launched an “It’s Possible” campaign to get out the message that recovery is possible, harm re...

Is your patient a candidate for tobacco harm reduction?

Many lifelong cigarette smokers and their doctors have pushed smoking cessation to the bottom of the problem list and thus never get to discuss it again. A recent announcement from...

Tobacco harm reduction changes the talk with your doctor

Until recently people who smoke cigarettes were presented with a simple choice: continue smoking and worsen the risk and severity of tobacco-related disease or make another quit at...

E-cigarette Regulatory Gaps and Substance Use Recovery

E-cigarettes are viewed by many, including the FDA, as a harm reduction for smokers. But with 86 percent of U.S. products being unregulated and smuggled, how can we be so sure?

Microcosting PrEP optimization for sexual and gender minorities with substance use disorders

Preventing HIV among the people at highest risk of acquiring it may cost far less than many public health agencies fear. A new economic analysis, published in Addiction Science &am...

Naloxone (Narcan) Saves a Life—But What Happens Next?

Naloxone helped cut overdose deaths 41% from their 2023 peak. But nearly 70,000 still die yearly as survivors cycle through a revolving door without sustained treatment.

Half of prenatal substance exposure CPS reports could be avoided, analysis suggests

A new study conducted at Boston Medical Center (BMC), New England's largest essential hospital, found that a trauma-informed clinical guideline can help reduce reflexive Child Prot...

SA's needle exchange reduces disease and saves lives. Texas lawmakers declined to expand it

Texas has some of the nation’s most restrictive policies on syringe exchange programs. But for years, Bexar County has been the exception and is authorized to operate a needle exch...