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 on the…

November 22, 2024

Unsanctioned Overdose Prevention Sites Open Outside Two BC Hospitals

After two weeks in Royal Jubilee Hospital with a bad bout of pneumonia, Jared had stepped outside to smoke. Not…

November 18, 2024

Where Harm Reduction Stands Around the World in 2024

On October 29, Harm Reduction International released its latest biannual report on the status of harm reduction services around the…

October 29, 2024

SAMHSA-Backed Toolkit Introduces Harm Reduction to Families, Caregivers

The National Family Support Technical Assistance Center (NFSTAC) has curated a “Family & Caregiver Toolkit,” aimed at those whose children…

October 8, 2024

VT Overdose Prevention Centers to Allow Smoking Areas, Mobile Units

Vermont has unveiled operating guidelines for overdose prevention centers (OPC), which will include smoking consumption areas and potentially mobile sites.…

September 16, 2024

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 got me into harm reduction was…

July 26, 2024

VT Legalizes Safe Consumption Sites, Reversing Course on Veto Override

  [Update, June 17: This story has been edited to reflect the final outcome of the Assembly vote] Vermont has…

June 17, 2024

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 service programs (SSP), allowing two SSP…

June 11, 2024

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 White House Office of National Drug…

June 10, 2024

New National Drug Control Strategy: Almost More Harm Reduction Access

In 2022, the White House released a National Drug Control Strategy that it widely touted as the “first-ever to champion…

June 3, 2024