Use + Harm Reduction
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, ...
African Experts Explain Their Challenges in Reducing Tobacco Harms
Major obstacles to tobacco harm reduction exist in high-income, “western” countries from the United ...
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 ...
Why Those of Us Who Choose Sobriety Should Back Safe Consumption Sites
In many areas of public health and medicine, best practices are routinely adopted without ...
FDA Cherry Picks Science in “Magic” Anti-Vaping Campaign
On July 22, the US Food and Drug Administration announced the launch of two ...
To Taper a Pain Patient? It’s Never One-Size-Fits-All
Many years ago, I broke my ankle—tibia and fibula—in a fall from a horse. ...
PrEP Education Campaigns Leave People Who Inject Drugs Behind
On July 12, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report that ...
A Sample Meal Plan for People Who Have Been Using Drugs
Editor’s note: This is the plan created by harm reduction worker Ria Tsinas (who ...
Nutrition Is an Overlooked Aspect of Harm Reduction
The connection between food and drugs is stronger than most people might think. Many ...
Psychedelics Take the TED Talk Stage for the First Time
Preparing for this talk has been scarier for me than preparing for LSD therapy,” ...
