Unsanctioned grassroots initiatives—from the unofficial to the plain illegal—are both the origins and the soul of the harm reduction movement.…
On August 19 a federal judge in Philadelphia presided over the opening salvo of a legal battle with the potential…
On August 7, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang tweeted his support for safe consumption sites (SCS) in the US. SCS,…
In many areas of public health and medicine, best practices are routinely adopted without much resistance. Sure, there is always…
A large majority of people who use opioids in three coastal cities would utilize safe consumption spaces if they were…
Viewed from the United States, Canada’s comparatively liberal social mores and universal healthcare would seem to set the stage for…
In April of this year, Portugal, a country well known for having decriminalized all drugs in 2001, got its first…
Communities most impacted by the overdose crisis are more likely to back groundbreaking interventions like safe consumption sites (SCS) in…
While officials in the US—and the UK where I live—debate the introduction of safe consumption spaces (SCS), it's important to…
On May 10, the members of the Health and Human Services Committee of Maine’s legislature debated LD949—a bill that would…