Unsanctioned grassroots initiatives—from the unofficial to the plain illegal—are both the origins and the soul of the harm reduction movement.…
The young woman paced frantically around the hospital room, dark bags under her bloodshot eyes. Sweat beaded across her pale…
On August 7, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang tweeted his support for safe consumption sites (SCS) in the US. SCS,…
For the first time since the 1990s, fatal drug overdoses decreased in 2018, according to preliminary Center for Disease Control…
Many years ago, I broke my ankle—tibia and fibula—in a fall from a horse. It was compound and comminuted, meaning…
Overdoses—not those involving prescription opioids, but of heroin and illicit fentanyl, often combined with benzodiazepines—continue to go up. But opioid…
A large majority of people who use opioids in three coastal cities would utilize safe consumption spaces if they were…
In 2018, Delaware had the sixth highest number of overdose deaths in the country, yet the state still has major…
On November 18, 2018 at Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center (MASAC) at Plymouth, an incarcerated person who had been…
For 10 months now, a Ukrainian harm reduction activist has been illegally detained by the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), an…