harm reduction

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

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 since British Columbia declared the overdose…

April 16, 2025

Texas Bill Could Expand Sterile Syringe Access—for a Fee

A proposal advancing in the Texas legislature would authorize syringe service program (SSP) pilots in a total of seven counties,…

April 15, 2025

“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 agencies and funding, critical research—including that related…

February 25, 2025

BC Doctor Who Organized Pop-Up OPS Resigns Following Retaliation

Two months after organizing one of the unsanctioned overdose prevention sites (OPS) that launched a movement across Canada, a British…

February 6, 2025