Psychology Today

How to Judge Harm Reduction's Success

An overdose prevention center in New York City (OnPoint NYC) Source: Seth Wenig/AP Photo/Alamy By Abdullah Shihipar, Alexandria Macmadu, Ph.D., and Brandon Marshall, Ph.D. Drug policy in the United ...
The Lantern

Greek Programming Board offers harm reduction events and toolkits

The Ohio State Greek Programming Board is bringing the principles of harm reduction to students in Greek life at Ohio State, offering presentations and toolkits at events on campus. Harm reduction — a ...
OPB

‘Just say no’ didn’t actually protect students from drugs. Here’s what could

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 ...
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How Harm Reduction Strategies Are Changing the Landscape of Tobacco Use

Harm reduction is an innovative and adaptive strategy in public health that provides a pragmatic framework for minimizing the negative health impacts of tobacco consumption. It recognizes that while ...
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Harm Reduction Services for People Who Use Drugs: Exploring Data Collection, Evidence Gaps, and Research Needs - A Workshop

Recognizing the public health emergency posed by opioid overdoses, there increasingly have been calls for a comprehensive approach to drug policy that includes a focuses on reducing harm for people ...
Psychology Today

Harm Reduction

Harm reduction is an approach to treating those with alcohol and other substance-use problems that does not require patients to commit to complete abstinence before treatment begins. Instead, an array ...
Mission Local

Breed’s broadside against harm reduction isn’t based on facts, experts say

A man suffering from long-term drug use who could only walk with extreme difficulty. Photo by Griffin Jones on July 8, 2023. Half a dozen public health and addiction experts interviewed by Mission ...
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Harm reduction techniques being phased out under Trump

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 health ...
NPR

Instead of sodas, these vending machines offer needles and Narcan to fight overdoses

The small city of North Adams, nestled in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, is well-know as a hub of contemporary art, a bucolic haven for stressed New Yorkers, and an autumn leaf peeping ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Voices: I’ve seen harm reduction save Utahns’ lives. But our programs need your support.

“I died this weekend,” a client told me recently. I work at a harm reduction non-profit in Salt Lake City, and I wish I could say this was the only time I’d heard that statement. We serve people who ...
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Harm Reduction Brief

Communities and people in Indiana are adversely affected by substance use disorders. In Indiana, 1 in 12 people meet criteria for a SUD the term used in the medical field for drug and alcohol abuse ...