The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) wants to revise outdated guidelines for methadone clinics. The agency issued…
Pliny the Elder, a Roman statesman and writer, lived during the 1st Century CE. He died, famously, during the eruption…
Dozens of legislatures across the United States are currently weighing how to regulate or ban kratom, a plant with mild…
President Biden has released his budget request for fiscal year 2024, including funding increases for harm reduction programs. It would…
People with opioid use disorder in Alberta can no longer pick up safe supply medications like hydromorphone from pharmacies, following…
Most harm reduction work plays out in legal gray areas, but in South Carolina that's all we know. There’s no…
My life changed in a matter of seconds, when in 2010 I sustained a serious spinal injury in a tree-cutting…
I started injecting morphine in 2004. It made my face painfully flushed, and what people often experience as a prickling…
British Columbia has officially become the first first province in Canada to decriminalize possession of small quantities of opioids, cocaine,…
Back in the 1990s, Switzerland pioneered heroin-assisted treatment—successfully addressing HIV and overdose crises by offering an early form of safe…