In hopes of destigmatizing mental health and addiction, and informing students about campus resources, Alchemind, a student ...

Rockford Urban Ministries will host its fourth annual Blue Christmas service Dec. 22 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockford, honoring lives lost to opioid overdose. The event will begin at ...

In the face of increasing opioid-related deaths nationally, the University has ramped up efforts to combat the dangers of synthetic opioids, working to educate students and reduce the harm caused by ...

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 ...

This approach works. I personally completed a harm reduction training at a community event and left with two doses of Narcan to carry. A few months later, I used one of those doses when witnessing a ...

Primary health care has particularly struggled to address the needs of PWUD. Primary care’s promise of increased provider continuity, improved treatment adherence, and disease prevention increases its ...

He quickly learned two things: how hard it is to break the cycle of addiction and why harm reduction methods, such offering supervised consumption sites, can help prevent overdoses. “The important ...

Broomfield Youth for Youth is offering a free harm reduction training at the Broomfield Library to teach teens, parents and teachers how to administer Narcan. Narcan, the brand name for naloxone, is ...

As the overdose crisis in the United States continues — more than 100,000 people died of overdose in 2021, a new record — the practice of harm reduction is gaining new traction as a possible solution ...

Local health officials fear an executive order dictating that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) can no longer fund harm reduction programs will accelerate the ...

Leah F. is a harm reductionist in Alabama. A full-time college student with EMT training, she runs one of the only harm reduction organizations in the state. Alabama law forbids some essential harm ...