Use + Harm Reduction

Let’s End Dangerous Wait Times for Accessing Opioid Use Disorder Meds

I had never been in trouble my whole life. Then I got in major trouble,” said Nikki, a 35-year-old woman…

January 8, 2020

How to Check Drug Interactions With Hep C Medications

In the United Kingdom, half of surveyed people who inject drugs had been infected with hepatitis C (HCV), and some…

January 6, 2020

TripApp Is the Latest Mobile Innovation to Make Drug Use Safer

Imagine going on a night out with friends, planning to share some "ecstasy" pills you bought locally. What if you…

December 31, 2019

The Teen Vaping Trends We’re Not Talking About

Teen cannabis and nicotine vaping spiked between January 2018 and January 2019, a widely-cited US survey on adolescent drug use…

December 30, 2019

Tennessee Harm Reduction Workers Combat Stigma to Save Lives

Overdose deaths in Shelby County, Tennessee have increased 62 percent this year compared to the same period in 2018, according…

December 23, 2019

A Mission to Turn Recovery Coaches Into a Harm Reduction Resource

On International Overdose Awareness Day 2018, Dean LeMire sat in the New Hampshire woods with Jim Wuelfing, pondering a dilemma.…

December 23, 2019

A Lifesaving Disruptive Technology and the Effort to Destroy It

Imagine a new miracle drug with the potential to prevent one third of fatal cancers, to avoid one in four…

December 18, 2019

Six Years Ago, My Cousin Overdosed. What Could Have Saved Her Life?

This is the worst phone call of my life. It wakes me before 7 am on the Tuesday after Labor…

December 17, 2019

“Methadone” for Meth Is on the Horizon

The robust public health response to opioid use disorders in the United States is, in part, made possible by the…

December 17, 2019

Four Intersecting Overdose Crises Require Unique Responses, Researchers Find

A one-size-fits-all approach to the "opioid epidemic" will not work, say researchers at Iowa State University. Co-authors David Peters, Shannon…

December 16, 2019