Use + Harm Reduction

Revealing Trends in Russia’s Dark-Web Drug Markets

Heroin use became widespread in Russia in the late 1990s, amid the opening of international borders and social upheaval and…

December 16, 2020

San Francisco Drug Users Face Soaring Deaths. Solidarity Can Sustain Us.

My stomach was churning frantically as I lay strapped to a gurney in San Francisco General Hospital that day in…

December 15, 2020

New York State Launches 24-Hour Hotline for People Using Drugs Alone

New Yorkers who are using drugs alone, and who would like someone to stay on the phone with them and…

December 10, 2020

Pandemic Is Making Overdoses Deadlier, Research Shows

Nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the first available research has finally measured what harm reductionists have known…

December 8, 2020

My Study of Providing Vapes to Unhoused Smokers in Ireland

While I was volunteering at an Irish homelessness service called Dublin Simon Community a couple of years ago, I helped…

December 7, 2020

A Fentanyl User’s Dispiriting Search for Safe Supply in Toronto

When I heard earlier this year that a safe supply of opioids would be made more widely available for people…

December 3, 2020

“Wasp Dope”—Under Prohibition, Insecticide Becomes Meth Replacement

In Appalachian Kentucky, drug users' difficulty accessing unregulated markets may be driving the uptake of a novel psychoactive substance in…

December 3, 2020

Leaked FBI Report: Drug Sellers Practice Harm Reduction

The recognition that people who sell drugs can play a crucial role in reducing the harms caused by drug criminalization…

December 2, 2020

Burning Issues: A Call to Liberate Vapes and Vapers

“Tobacco harm reduction is good public health and health promotion, starting with the people who matter: smokers and those who…

December 1, 2020

I Recently Used Naloxone to Save a Life. Limiting Access Is Unforgivable.

One moment, I was dabbing off a smudge of eyeliner in front of the bathroom mirror, just a commonplace, mundane…

November 30, 2020