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How Harm Reduction Strategies Are Changing the Landscape of Tobacco Use

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 ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Voices: I’ve seen harm reduction save Utahns’ lives. But our programs need your support.

“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 ...
The Nation

What Harm Reduction Really Looks Like

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 ...
The New York Times

Cities Move Away From Strategies That Make Drug Use Safer

San Francisco, Philadelphia and others are retreating from “harm reduction” strategies that have helped reduce deaths but which critics, including Trump, say have contributed to pervasive public drug ...
MPR News

A closer look at how the harm reduction strategy plays out in Minneapolis

Create an account or log in to save stories. NINA MOINI: In Minnesota, deadly drug overdoses doubled between 2018 and 2023. And in Minneapolis, those deaths are disproportionately represented. In 2022 ...
NPR

Instead of sodas, these vending machines offer needles and Narcan to fight overdoses

The small city of North Adams, nestled in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, is well-know as a hub of contemporary art, a bucolic haven for stressed New Yorkers, and an autumn leaf peeping ...
KJZZ

Harm reduction CEO says new Phoenix parks ordinance will lead to more overdoses, deaths

The Phoenix City Council approved a controversial new law that puts new restrictions in place about providing medical care in ...
Newsweek

Fentanyl Overdoses Remain High—Is Harm Reduction the Solution?

The opioid crisis is one of the most urgent public health challenges in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. experienced a significant ...
Daily Hampshire Gazette

Local leaders sound alarm on harm reduction cuts

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Will Trump kill programs that help drug users? L.A. harm reduction groups await fate

Samson Tafolo’s final count read 119. For 45 minutes, he had tugged a wagon packed with mini water bottles, hemp cigarettes and miscellaneous hygiene products around Skid Row, handing out the supplies ...
Medicine Buffalo

Two studies assess harm reduction vending machines established by the MATTERS program of UB and UBMD Emergency Medicine

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Two studies led by an opioid treatment program run by the University at Buffalo and UBMD Emergency Medicine have found that harm reduction vending machines installed across New York ...