Tag: harm reduction
Documents Show BC Scrapped OPC Plan at Hospitals Where Pop-Ups Ran
On November 18, the newly organized group Doctors for Safer Drug Policy set up ...
Unsanctioned Overdose Prevention Sites Open Outside Two BC Hospitals
After two weeks in Royal Jubilee Hospital with a bad bout of pneumonia, Jared ...
Where Harm Reduction Stands Around the World in 2024
On October 29, Harm Reduction International released its latest biannual report on the status ...
SAMHSA-Backed Toolkit Introduces Harm Reduction to Families, Caregivers
The National Family Support Technical Assistance Center (NFSTAC) has curated a “Family & Caregiver ...
VT Overdose Prevention Centers to Allow Smoking Areas, Mobile Units
Vermont has unveiled operating guidelines for overdose prevention centers (OPC), which will include smoking ...
World Hepatitis Day: How Scotland Worked With People Who Inject Drugs
I’ve experienced a lot of harms related to substance use, but the one that ...
VT Legalizes Safe Consumption Sites, Reversing Course on Veto Override
[Update, June 17: This story has been edited to reflect the final outcome ...
Pueblo Judge Blocks Syringe Program Ban, and Services Resume for Now
The City of Pueblo, Colorado, has been forced to suspend an ordinance criminalizing syringe ...
White House Meth Plan Still Includes Harm Reduction, Just Not for Meth
Once the federal government designated methamphetamine an “emerging drug threat” in March 2022, the ...
New National Drug Control Strategy: Almost More Harm Reduction Access
In 2022, the White House released a National Drug Control Strategy that it widely ...
