Use + Harm Reduction
Childhood Development Issues and Adult Addiction Fit the Same Pattern
Behavioral-developmental challenges in childhood and addiction problems in adulthood are two sides of the ...
Three Takeaways From Filter’s Tobacco Harm Reduction and Health Justice Event
On May 17, Filter hosted a panel entitled “Tobacco Harm Reduction, Vulnerable Populations & Health Justice” ...
Maine Legislators Choose Stigma Over Science in Shameful SCS Decision
On May 10, the members of the Health and Human Services Committee of Maine’s ...
Innovative Canadian “Street Degree” Empowers Peer Harm Reduction Workers
In British Columbia, an entirely peer-taught overdose prevention “Street Degree” program has graduated its ...
How Technology Is Rapidly Advancing Overdose-Resistant Bathrooms
As the US harm reduction community grapples with the legal, cultural and political challenges ...
Drug Czar, Congressmembers Move to Make Buprenorphine Prescribing Easier—But Will They Do Enough?
The United States “drug czar” James Carrol released a report on May 3 announcing ...
US Arrival of Heat-Not-Burn Is Another Option for Smokers to Switch
Last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved IQOS, a device that delivers ...
Why We Fail to Maximize the Benefits of Methadone and Buprenorphine
Medication for anything only works if the patient takes enough. This is emphatically true ...
Maine Hit Hard by Overdose Crisis, Yet Suffers Biggest Federal Funding Shortfall
Funding for harm reduction interventions in Maine received a much-needed boost on February 6. ...
New Study: Syringe Service Providers Could Have Prevented the Scott County HIV Outbreak
In the wake of the unprecedented outbreak of HIV among people who inject drugs ...
