Adolescent drug use often triggers moral panics, fear-mongering and the passage of draconian laws to “keep the kids safe” by ...

In November 2023, California teenager Sam Nelson put a question to ChatGPT. “How many grams of kratom gets you a ...

For years, they pretended as though diversion wasn't a problem. Now, some are claiming they had been warning about it all along ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed a groundbreaking rule to reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes and other combustible tobacco products to a minimal level. For communications ...

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, ...

In considering the use of a harm reduction model for those with loss of control eating behaviors, this post is a follow-up to last month’s post, "Cravings, Loss of Control, and Dietary Restraint." In ...

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 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 ...