Sheila Vakharia, who now works for the Drug Policy Alliance, began her career as a clinical social worker at a conventional addiction treatment center, where she soon became disenchanted. "Few of my ...

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 Baltimore City government’s expansion of drug harm reduction efforts may have a limited impact on overdose death rates, according to some recent studies. Baltimore won nearly $700 million in ...

Public health workers say new restrictions on drug-checking supplies come as street drugs become more contaminated and unpredictable.

For as long as the federal government has worked to support substance use treatment, it has operated on a simple premise: Addiction medicine’s objective is to help people using drugs stop — completely ...

In a perfect world, recovering from a drug addiction is just as easy as falling into one, and immediate, complete sobriety would be an option for everyone. We like to believe that if addicts had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to trying to reduce the devastation that accompanies the use of illicit drugs, experts say Michigan is working ...

Progressive “harm reduction” advocates have insisted for decades that active users should take a central role in crafting drug policy. While this belief is profoundly reckless—akin to letting drunk ...

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, ...