In late October 2012, just days before Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, Dominic Faison was binging on methamphetamine, or…
Public education campaigns about drugs often rely on ineffective and stigmatizing scare tactics. They spread fear and shame that make…
In 2017, overdoses in urban areas occurred more frequently than those in rural places, according to a new Center for…
Major obstacles to tobacco harm reduction exist in high-income, “western” countries from the United States to Australia. Yet it’s vital…
As the so-called epidemic of teen vaping continues to garner sensational headlines—“Why vaping is so dangerous for teens”; “The scary…
In many areas of public health and medicine, best practices are routinely adopted without much resistance. Sure, there is always…
On July 22, the US Food and Drug Administration announced the launch of two new videos promoting the message that…
Many years ago, I broke my ankle—tibia and fibula—in a fall from a horse. It was compound and comminuted, meaning…
On July 12, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report that found an "encouraging" increase in recent…
Editor’s note: This is the plan created by harm reduction worker Ria Tsinas (who has struggled with drugs in the…