Use + Harm Reduction

Public Health Experts Call for Retraction of Brookings Institution Opioid “Research Roundup”

[This article was updated December 12 to reflect a response from the author of the paper.]   An article published…

December 11, 2018

Troubling Report Shows Harm Reduction Provision Stalling Around the World

The harm reduction movement has made major gains nationally and around the world. But, according to a new report by…

December 11, 2018

By Ignoring Vaping, Mental Health Orgs Abandon Vulnerable Smokers

Recently, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) came out in favor of the use of vaping…

December 10, 2018

How Harm Reduction Services Are Keeping Festivalgoers Safer

It’s around 4 am when I eat a brownie containing an unknown amount of THC. I’m at a festival in…

December 7, 2018

Jamie Favaro’s Quest to Bring Online Naloxone Access Nationwide

What I've learned is that [syringe exchange programs] are everywhere," says Jamie Favaro, founder of Next Harm Reduction. "Even if…

December 5, 2018

Trump Calls China’s Fentanyl Regulation Promise a “Game Changer.” It’s Not.

President Xi Jinping of China agreed to regulate all forms of fentanyl in the People's Republic during negotiations with President…

December 4, 2018

Confirmation of Five Fentanyl Analogues in Schedule I Following Surge in Fatalities Will Do Nothing to Help

On November 29, five fentanyl analogues—furanyl fentanyl, 4-fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl, acryl fentanyl, tetrahydrofuranyl fentanyl, and ocfentanil—were officially added to the Drug Enforcement…

November 29, 2018

How to Involve People Who Use Drugs in Your Organization

Advocates at the Drugs Research Network Scotland conference in Glasgow this week circulated a striking two-page pamphlet: "How to Involve People…

November 29, 2018

Shut-Down of Orange County Needle Exchange Program a Win for Backwards Thinking

One step forward, two back. The day after a federal judge issued a groundbreaking order for an incarcerated man to…

November 29, 2018