MEXICO CITY — Under warm strobe lights and pulsing house beats, a recent festival in Mexico City offered more than music, food and booze. Amidst the usual festival fare, a booth provided free, ...

Blue cities are moving away from so-called harm reduction strategies in combating overdose deaths from use of hard drugs. Harm reduction aims to decrease the negative consequences of risky behavior ...

President Joe Biden is sending his administration’s first national drug control strategy to Congress as the U.S. overdose death toll hit a new record of nearly 107,000 during the past 12 months. The ...

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 ...

In the landscape of addiction treatment, we often find ourselves searching for approaches that honor the fundamental human need for connection. Harm reduction, frequently misunderstood, offers more ...

Smokefree products are picking up speed in the tobacco business. The race is on for success in harm reduction: encouraging smokers to switch completely to reduced risk alternatives. Evidence of this ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. President Trump is threatening to withhold funds from supervised drug consumption sites and potentially pursue criminal penalties against them ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominee for Secretary of the Department of ...

MINOT — To understand why harm reduction works, as a public policy, we must first consider what doesn’t work. Prohibition doesn’t work. We tried it with alcohol, and it was one of the most spectacular ...

“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 ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Under warm strobe lights and pulsing house beats, a recent festival in Mexico City offered more than music, food and booze. Amidst the usual festival fare, a booth provided free, ...