#harm reduction

Justice Department lawyers are fighting against a Philadelphia nonprofit’s latest proposal to open one.

A new study finds strong support for the harm reduction strategy among those most likely to use them.

The city has focused its efforts on mobile outreach.

The former Soviet country has suffered through one of the highest rates of HCV in the world.

A new study finds strong support for the harm reduction strategy among those most likely to use them.

Needle exchanges are being endorsed and legalized in a number of red states.

Just over half of people who use drugs in eight cities are hepatitis C virus antibody positive.

State lawmakers shut down Madison County’s only clean needle site last year amid an intensifying opioid crisis.

He said it would enable drug use, but Jeff Sessions also influenced the veto.

The Canadian harm reduction center will provide medical marijuana at little to no cost as a safer alternative to opioids.

Experts say the deadly prescription painkiller could soon replace heroin entirely.

The harm reduction facility could be the first in the nation.

The Center for HIV Law and Policy, the Harm Reduction Coalition and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable are behind the effort.

The pharmaceutical company’s grant-making arm is teaming up with Marshall Health to address areas hit hardest by opioids.

Naomi Burke-Shyne has worked in the fields of harm reduction, human rights and HIV for over a decade.

The ambitious plan will allocate an initial $5 million to help ramp up treatment, remove barriers to care and increase harm reduction.