Use + Harm Reduction

How to Involve People Who Use Drugs in Your Organization

Advocates at the Drugs Research Network Scotland conference in Glasgow this week circulated a striking two-page pamphlet: "How to Involve People…

November 29, 2018

Shut-Down of Orange County Needle Exchange Program a Win for Backwards Thinking

One step forward, two back. The day after a federal judge issued a groundbreaking order for an incarcerated man to…

November 29, 2018

Nothing Like a Movie: It Matters That We Know the Reality of an Overdose Scene

We get a lot of ideas about drug overdoses from the movies. Raves gone wrong, party girls with bloody noses…

November 28, 2018

Governor Cuomo’s Approval Is All That’s Stopping Supervised Consumption Spaces in New York

The fight for safer consumption spaces in New York looked promising in October, after Governor Andrew Cuomo expressed tentative openness to…

November 26, 2018

Russia’s Harm Reductionists Are Once Again Under Attack

“It used to be that you'd be walking on your way to score, and if you'd see a policeman, you'd…

November 26, 2018

Asia Has a Smoking Epidemic—But Also Incredible Harm Reduction Innovations

The second Asia Harm Reduction Forum convened in Manila on November 14. Organized by the Harm Reduction Alliance of the…

November 21, 2018

Stigma and Strip Searches: We Still Treat People on Methadone as Less Than Human

Have you ever noticed how quiet a cold morning feels? Something about the coldness works its way into the sound…

November 19, 2018

My Relationships With Drugs Vary Wildly: We Must Recognize Spectrums

For the last 14 years I have bounced around nearly every part of the drug-use spectrum, though I’ve rarely stayed…

November 13, 2018

“I Was Just Ignorant”—World-Renowned Vaping Researcher on His Dramatic Conversion

Dr. Riccardo Polosa is professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Catania, Italy, and a world-renowned researcher into tobacco harm…

November 8, 2018

Video: Filter Editor Denounces War on Nicotine to Regulator Watch

Helen Redmond, Filter's senior editor, made plenty of waves with her recent piece, "The War on Nicotine Pits Prejudice Against…

November 7, 2018