Use + Harm Reduction
Will Missouri’s Opioid Settlement Payout Mean Much for Harm Reduction?
At least 1,921 Missourians died of opioid-involved overdose in 2020, an increase of almost ...
You Can No Longer Be Arrested for Carrying Fentanyl Test Strips in Philly
On August 2, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announced that city police will no longer ...
“Alarmingly High” Number of US Doctors Think Nicotine Causes Cancer
More than 75 percent of US physicians wrongly believe that nicotine directly contributes to ...
World Hepatitis Day 2021 Platforms a Crisis That “Can’t Wait”
Since 2018, the World Hepatitis Alliance has promoted World Hepatitis Day—July 28—with the hashtag ...
How Can a Syringe Program Reject Harm Reduction for Smoking?
One day last year, when I was working as a medical case manager at ...
Mexico Supreme Court Nixes Import Ban on “Heat-Not-Burn” Harm Reduction Products
On July 16, Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that heated tobacco products (HTP), sometimes known ...
What International Drug Users Remembrance Day Means to Me
Today, International Drug Users Remembrance Day, is one day among all the others when ...
The Pernicious Myth of Fentanyl-Laced Cannabis
A recent Washington Post piece on the ever-worsening increase in drug poisoning deaths has ...
Vancouver Activists Hand Out Drugs, Demand Better Safe Supply Options
On July 14 Jean Swanson, a city councillor of Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), helped ...
“I Rarely Vape Until Cocktail Hour”—Patt Denning’s THR Journey
Dr. Patt Denning has been a leading harm reduction advocate for over 30 years. ...
