Use + Harm Reduction

A Mission to Turn Recovery Coaches Into a Harm Reduction Resource

On International Overdose Awareness Day 2018, Dean LeMire sat in the New Hampshire woods with Jim Wuelfing, pondering a dilemma.…

December 23, 2019

A Lifesaving Disruptive Technology and the Effort to Destroy It

Imagine a new miracle drug with the potential to prevent one third of fatal cancers, to avoid one in four…

December 18, 2019

Six Years Ago, My Cousin Overdosed. What Could Have Saved Her Life?

This is the worst phone call of my life. It wakes me before 7 am on the Tuesday after Labor…

December 17, 2019

“Methadone” for Meth Is on the Horizon

The robust public health response to opioid use disorders in the United States is, in part, made possible by the…

December 17, 2019

Four Intersecting Overdose Crises Require Unique Responses, Researchers Find

A one-size-fits-all approach to the "opioid epidemic" will not work, say researchers at Iowa State University. Co-authors David Peters, Shannon…

December 16, 2019

A Dire Shortage of ADD Meds Is Pushing Some Patients to Street Meth

America is beginning—far too late and far too slowly—to get some kind of a grip on deaths and harms involving…

December 12, 2019

Booty-Bumping Meth: Harm Reduction for an Under-Discussed Practice

Stacy Cobine, a peer worker at a harm reduction center in Northern California, works with a lot of people who…

December 10, 2019

“Not Mechanized or Automatic”—Ketamine Researcher Sounds Caution Over Alcohol Study

What really causes you to drink to excess? Elias Dakwar, MD says the answer is more complex than many think.…

December 5, 2019

The End of NYC’s HIV Epidemic Is In Sight—Except for Trans Women

New York City is the first city in the United States to meet a key international target aimed at ending…

December 4, 2019

How Photography by People Who Inject Drugs Could Advance Research

Amid infectious disease outbreaks among people who inject drugs in the United States in recent years, researchers are looking for…

December 2, 2019