Use + Harm Reduction

What Older Vapers Think of Youth-Vaping Panic

Globally, youth vaping and its supposed health impacts have dominated public discussion and driven policies, to the extent that other…

November 18, 2024

“Dual Use” of Vapes and Cigarettes Is Unfairly Maligned

Dual use, referring to people who smoke and vape concurrently, is a phenomenon often cited by opponents of vaping to…

November 8, 2024

How Prisoners Practice Tobacco Harm Reduction, With No Vapes

Harm reduction can always be practiced, regardless of whether you have government approval and specially designed products. I know this…

November 4, 2024

Safer Drug Supply on the Dark Web? It’s Complicated, Researchers Find

Buying drugs on the dark web is often seen as a safer alternative to navigating an unpredictable, adulterated local supply.…

October 25, 2024

Laypeople Administering Naloxone More Often, Per 911-Call Data

In cases where 911 is called, more bystanders than previously have been using naloxone when they believe someone is experiencing…

October 21, 2024

Feds Say Vapes, and Not Abstinence, Research Priority for Smoking Harms

In a call for innovation to reduce the public health harms of smoking, the National Institutes of Health and the…

October 16, 2024

Tapering Off Methadone Without a Clinic, in Just Two Years and 13 Rehabs

Since early 2023, I’ve been surfing my way across what feels like every New Jersey substance use disorder treatment facility…

October 15, 2024

“Essential in Our World”—NYC Harm Reductionist on Vaping

“Harm reduction for tobacco is essential in our world,” says Jerry Otero. “So many of the people that I work…

October 8, 2024

I Just Overdosed Again. This Time, It Was Different.

I’ve been using drugs—opioids, stimulants and many others—on and off for basically my whole adult life. I don’t see it…

September 26, 2024

National Cancer Institute Surveys Pain Patients’ Cannabis, Polysubstance Use

A federal government agency has published a wide-ranging series of scientific reports on marijuana and cancer as part of an…

September 23, 2024