Tag: harm reduction
WI Advocates Trying to Open State’s First Public Drug-Checking Service
Harm reduction advocates in Madison, Wisconsin, are organizing what could be the state’s first ...
How New MP Aaron Gunn Helped Turn Canada Against Harm Reduction
As Canada’s parliament gets into motion following the spring federal election, it has one ...
How I Freeze My Cottons, So As to Never Get Cotton Fever Again
The first time I ever got cotton fever, I thought it was just bad ...
Amid Encampment Sweeps, Oregon City May Ban Public Syringe Exchange
The Roseburg, Oregon, City Council is weighing an ordinance that would prohibit harm reduction ...
Hawaii Legislature Overturns “One-to-One” Restriction on Syringe Exchange
Hawaii has passed legislation authorizing syringe service programs (SSP) to begin distribution as needed, ...
Remembering Long Hair Dave, Early Champion of Sterile Syringe Outreach
David Fawver (1956-2025) was a beloved activist in Olympia, Washington, known to everyone as ...
Harm Reduction Activists Gather in Bogotá, as World Grows More Hostile
Around 1,000 people who use drugs, activists, scholars and policymakers have gathered in Bogotá, ...
BC Enters 10th Year of Overdose Crisis, as It Shutters Harm Reduction Policies
As people gathered in Vancouver’s Victory Square on April 14 to mark nine years ...
Texas Bill Could Expand Sterile Syringe Access—for a Fee
A proposal advancing in the Texas legislature would authorize syringe service program (SSP) pilots ...
“It’s Very Real”—Harm Reduction Research Facing DOGE Funding Cuts
As Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) take a chainsaw to federal ...
