New Tennessee legislation hopes to tackle teenage prescription opioid use by keeping pill bottles under lock and key–literally. The "Pilfering…
Some harm reduction interventions, like safer consumption spaces, are criminalized. Others, like syringe exchanges, may precariously hold onto legal status.…
The crisis of opioid-related deaths extends throughout North America. Similar to cities across the United States, Vancouver, Canada, is flooded…
When I was 19, living in New Jersey and injecting drugs, I found out that I had hepatitis C. All…
Someone had to tell me what to do with it: under your tongue, leave it there for a while, don’t…
Smoking is a stress relief," says one of the interview subjects of this Filter film about the reasons people smoke cigarettes,…
Late last year, public health officials in Philadelphia—which ranks second among large cities hit hardest by the US overdose and…
As more and more prohibitionist cannabis policies are reversed in North America, a long-peddled, if long-debunked, perception that weed is a "gateway…
The first large, systematic study of whether e-cigarettes help people to quit smoking was published January 30 in the New…
A new Russian harm reduction program for Muscovites engaging in chemsex is getting started in a country known for skyrocketing…