Use + Harm Reduction

Social Media Giants’ Censorship of Harm Reduction Is “Book Burning”

Dominic Milton Trott, a former small-business owner in England, wanted to go to Peru to do ayahuasca, and became engaged…

August 15, 2019

How Should Primary Care Physicians Talk to Patients About Drug Use?

All primary care physicians should screen their patients for drug use, recommended an independent panel of medical experts in an…

August 14, 2019

Watch: #NonExistentWeExist—Inside Russian HIV Activism

In the face of a repressive government, Russian harm reduction and legal aid organizations are working to end HIV in…

August 13, 2019

Canadian Prison Safe Consumption Site Sparks Heated Harm Reduction Debate

Safe consumption spaces and sterile syringe programs are major rallying points for the harm reduction movement. But in an unlikely…

August 12, 2019

The World Health Organization Blithely Denies Vaping Science

In a recent report on global tobacco control policy, the World Health Organization (WHO) continues to deny a growing body…

August 8, 2019

Black New Yorkers Hospitalized for Amphetamines at Alarming Rates

In late October 2012, just days before Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, Dominic Faison was binging on methamphetamine, or…

August 8, 2019

“Go Slow”—Baltimore’s Peer-Led Fentanyl Harm Reduction Campaign

Public education campaigns about drugs often rely on ineffective and stigmatizing scare tactics. They spread fear and shame that make…

August 7, 2019

CDC: Fatal Overdoses Are More Common in Cities Than Rural Areas

In 2017, overdoses in urban areas occurred more frequently than those in rural places, according to a new Center for…

August 6, 2019

African Experts Explain Their Challenges in Reducing Tobacco Harms

Major obstacles to tobacco harm reduction exist in high-income, “western” countries from the United States to Australia. Yet it’s vital…

July 29, 2019

Nicotine Testing for High Schoolers Is a Drug War-Style Disaster

As the so-called epidemic of teen vaping continues to garner sensational headlines—“Why vaping is so dangerous for teens”; “The scary…

July 25, 2019