For the first time in seven years, fatal overdoses are declining in New York City—a trend also provisionally observed on…
Unsanctioned grassroots initiatives—from the unofficial to the plain illegal—are both the origins and the soul of the harm reduction movement.…
The “4th wave of the overdose crisis” has arrived, tweeted Brett Giroir, a top official in the US Department of…
On August 19 a federal judge in Philadelphia presided over the opening salvo of a legal battle with the potential…
The young woman paced frantically around the hospital room, dark bags under her bloodshot eyes. Sweat beaded across her pale…
I can’t lose everything,” Paul Reithlinghshoefer told his mother when he relapsed back to using heroin in early 2017. Feeling…
On August 7, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang tweeted his support for safe consumption sites (SCS) in the US. SCS,…
Public education campaigns about drugs often rely on ineffective and stigmatizing scare tactics. They spread fear and shame that make…
In 2017, overdoses in urban areas occurred more frequently than those in rural places, according to a new Center for…
In many areas of public health and medicine, best practices are routinely adopted without much resistance. Sure, there is always…