WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is escalating its push against what has become a key part of the way states, localities and communities respond to the overdose epidemic: harm reduction. A public ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)– The deadly impact fentanyl can have on families across Louisiana is one of the reasons Dana DeLarue, a peer support specialist with Beacon Community Connections in Lafayette, is ...

Probably the most controversial tenet of harm reduction is the acceptance that both licit and illicit substance use are part ...

Harm reduction techniques are all around us in countless ways, and the drive to do better has served us well in the past. There's no reason we shouldn't keep trying to find better alternatives and ...

Stacey Andrews and Lynn Meyerkord both work at the AIDS Project of the Ozarks, or APO, in Springfield. The organization provides harm reduction tools like opioid overdose reversal medication and ...

The SOAR Initiative’s Bad Batch Alerts system is a text message service that warns users of contaminated batches of drugs in their area. A new harm reduction technique that started as a student ...

Smoking still kills nearly half a million Americans each year. And while overdose deaths have come down from their peak, they ...

The 19-year-old recounts a recent incident in which his friends got ahold of a drug that test strips showed was laced with fentanyl, a potent, often deadly, synthetic opioid. "That's kind of when I ...

Tiger’s money allows him to try the harm reduction approach over and over to respond to his problems with substances. If he ...

BINGHAMTON (WBNG) -- Overdose Prevention Coordinator Marissa Knapp told 12 News that it is difficult to report overdose deaths. This comes just one day after the Broome County Health Department said ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. The Biden administration is ending its term with a flurry of actions meant to expand access to addiction treatment — and preserve its legacy ...