Harm reduction is exactly what it sounds like: reducing the harm associated with using drugs through a variety of public health interventions. But the concept relies on more than these tools and ...

Firearms are the most common and lethal method for suicide among Soldiers and their dependents. Lethal means safety (LMS) is an evidence-based suicide prevention practice that involves securely ...

Across the Bay Area, coroners are reporting about half as many overdose deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl than during ...

San Francisco, Philadelphia and others are retreating from “harm reduction” strategies that have helped reduce deaths but which critics, including Trump, say have contributed to pervasive public drug ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs” and 52 years later the battle rages on – deadlier than ever. The crack era came and went in the 1980s, followed by the rural opioid crisis, ...

Los Angeles — Inside a bright new building in the heart of Skid Row, homeless people hung out in a canopy-covered courtyard — some waiting to take a shower, do laundry, or get medication for addiction ...

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 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 ...

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 ...