Across the US, most health professionals can now find opportunities to learn how to integrate harm reduction into their practice,…
Roughly 66 times every single day in British Columbia, someone calls 911 for a suspected drug overdose. And 66 times…
A study published January 7 suggests that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be drastically undercounting national…
The UK is moving towards a crackdown on GHB and GBL—two highly similar depressants, popular in clubs and the chemsex…
This is the worst phone call of my life. It wakes me before 7 am on the Tuesday after Labor…
A one-size-fits-all approach to the "opioid epidemic" will not work, say researchers at Iowa State University. Co-authors David Peters, Shannon…
Our cognitive biases, per Nobel-winner Daniel Kahneman and colleague Amos Tversky, cause us to value short-term benefits over staving off…
A common misconception about people who use heroin is that they all want to get as high as possible, that…
In July 2019, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released preliminary data suggesting that national overdose deaths slightly…
In the driveway next to an old brick church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the type of building that punctuates neighborhoods…