Use + Harm Reduction
Why Are Nurses Denied Effective Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder?
One of the greatest hypocrisies in medicine is the restriction of standard-of-care medications for ...
IV Ketamine Shows Promise for Chronic Pain, But Doubts Remain
The Littleton, Colorado location of Ketamine Wellness Centers is in the basement level of ...
California May Soon Pay People to Reduce Their Meth Use
Low-income Californians with methamphetamine use disorders may soon have expanded access to a well ...
Safehouse Won a Great Victory for Harm Reduction, NIMBYism Blocks It for Now
[Update, February 28: Less than 12 hours after this report was published, Safehouse withdrew ...
Community Outrage at Oakland Homeless Camps Enforcement Proposal
The city of Oakland, California is considering setting guidelines on where homeless encampments will ...
Study: Fatal GHB Overdoses Could Easily Be Prevented
Many deaths involving GHB, a depressant that’s popular in raves and chemsex scenes, in ...
The Problems With Post-Overdose Response Teams
Drug overdoses (better described as toxic drug mixtures and poisonings) claimed nearly half a ...
Does a “Dialectical Abstinence” Program Qualify as Harm Reduction?
I first heard the term “dialectical abstinence” in the summer of 2019, several weeks ...
Some Residents, Officials Gang Up Against Syringe Exchange in Chico, CA
People who use drugs in Chico, California have faced opposition in obtaining sterile harm ...
My Friend Died Because of Philly’s Addiction-Treatment Smoking Ban
I met Bobby in 2011, when we were both residents in a local recovery ...
