Tag: overdose
Illinois County Giving Naloxone to Gas Stations, Restaurants and More
In the central region of Illinois, the Champaign-Urbana Health District (CUHD) is giving out ...
NY Bill to Expand Safe Consumption Sites Advances, With Time Short
A New York State Assembly committee has voted to advance legislation that would authorize ...
Record High Overdose Deaths—Yet Again—in 2021, CDC Reveals
New provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that ...
DULF Keeps Distributing Checked Drugs as Health Canada Flags Denial
On May 4 in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) distributed ...
DEA’s Rx Drug Take Back Day Branded Fun for All the Family
The worst thing I’ve seen suggested at one of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s biannual ...
Biden’s Drug Strategy Mixes Harm Reduction With Harm Production
President Biden presented his 2022 National Drug Control Strategy to Congress on April 21. ...
Maine Set to Make Its Good Samaritan Law the “Strongest in the Nation”
On April 20, harm reduction advocates in Maine reached a deal with Democratic Governor ...
In Ohio, Harm Reductionists Break Into the Nightlife Scene
As Ohio overdose deaths continue to climb steeply, harm reduction workers around the state ...
Youth Overdose Crisis Swells Because Drug Warriors “Cried Wolf”
Since time immemorial—well, the early 20th century—youth have been inundated with messages about the ...
Toronto’s New Hospital-Based Safe Consumption Site Is a First for Ontario
A specialized hospital in Toronto opened the doors to a new supervised consumption site ...
