This training is free of charge but donations are accepted to support direct harm reduction programming in Chicago. The trainer is Sarz Maxwell, MD. The training ...
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 ...
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 ...
Harm reduction advocates are implementing solidarity-based strategies for curbing drug overdoses in Minneapolis. This story was copublished and supported by the journalism nonprofit the Economic ...
Harm reduction was adopted by public institutions to help stem the spread of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s. But it originated in self-advocacy by drug users, sex workers, and trans activists. Harm reduction, ...
More than 500 nurses and midwives across Malawi have received specialized training on tobacco harm reduction and smoking cessation, with the rollout of new online Continuous Professional Development ...
Long Beach residents will have the opportunity to learn more about the city’s opioid crisis and how to do their part in reducing related harm in their communities. The Department of Health and Human ...
One hot summer evening in 2019, security called us out of our clinic located within the largest men’s shelter in Boston, Massachusetts: “Overdose, out front!” We grabbed the oxygen tank and emergency ...
Harm reduction is having its moment in America. The doors of drug-related harm reduction have swung wide open after years of federal funding bans. Extensive opioid settlement payouts combined with an ...
Dimitri Clark is everywhere in his South of Market apartment building. Greeting residents in the lobby, checking in on floormates and keeping a door open for others to come by the tiny studio he ...