harm reduction

CA Syringe Program Resumes Services After Fight for Reauthorization

A syringe service program (SSP) in Santa Cruz, California, is back on its feet after losing its license amid backlash…

July 7, 2025

As DULF Prepares for Trial, Eris Nyx Calls for Direct Action Over “Policy Wish-Testing”

In a packed auditorium at McGill University in Montreal on June 26, Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) cofounder Eris Nyx…

July 1, 2025

Garth Mullins of “Crackdown” on Loss, Methadone and Drug-User Organizing

Garth Mullins knows the pain of losing people all too well. In 2019, during my early days of becoming a…

June 26, 2025

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 authorized public drug-checking program—but with funding…

June 18, 2025

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 new member who has played a…

June 11, 2025

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 dope that had left me in…

June 5, 2025

Amid Encampment Sweeps, Oregon City May Ban Public Syringe Exchange

The Roseburg, Oregon, City Council is weighing an ordinance that would prohibit harm reduction programs from distributing syringes in public…

May 21, 2025

Hawaii Legislature Overturns “One-to-One” Restriction on Syringe Exchange

Hawaii has passed legislation authorizing syringe service programs (SSP) to begin distribution as needed, in place of the current model…

May 5, 2025

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 Long Hair Dave. His street-based HIV-prevention…

May 1, 2025

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, Colombia, for the 28th annual Harm…

April 28, 2025