Use + Harm Reduction
CDC Recommends Drug-Checking Services Amid Historic Overdose Deaths
As the already-staggering death toll of the overdose crisis reaches historic heights, the United ...
Frontline Harm Reductionists Qualify for Early Vaccination—Will They Get it?
Frontline harm reductionists—including syringe service program (SSP) providers, peer outreach workers and hepatitis C ...
Eureka, California, Drives Out Its Syringe Service Program
A political battle in Northern California has ended in the partial closure of a ...
Indian Health Service’s OD-Vulnerable Patients Aren’t Getting Naloxone
The federal health agency serving federally recognized tribal members achieved its goal of reducing ...
Revealing Trends in Russia’s Dark-Web Drug Markets
Heroin use became widespread in Russia in the late 1990s, amid the opening of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pandemic Is Making Overdoses Deadlier, Research Shows
Nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the first available research has finally ...
My Study of Providing Vapes to Unhoused Smokers in Ireland
While I was volunteering at an Irish homelessness service called Dublin Simon Community a ...
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 ...
