Here are a few basic practices you should implement before, during, and after an event to keep yourself and others safe.

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 ...

Nov. 2—MORGANTOWN — Two things become apparent listening to Milan Puskar Health Right Executive Director Laura Jones discuss the agency's needle exchange program. One, she believes wholeheartedly in ...

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a complex and challenging condition that affects millions of individuals worldwide. It is crucial to approach this issue with compassion, empathy, and a focus on harm ...

Across the Bay Area, coroners are reporting about half as many overdose deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl than during ...

Harm reduction is a public health approach that aims to help people with substance use disorders or other high-risk habits in a nonjudgmental way. Rather than condone or condemn their behavior, the ...

Driving cars. Having sex. And in the times of COVID-19, shaking hands. All these activities bear risk, yet they are fundamental to our everyday experiences. Few swear them off entirely and instead use ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Limitless Foundation, an independent nonprofit, launched the first Cognitive Harm Reduction in Medicine Initiative -- an urgent research and action program to improve outcomes, advance equity, and ...

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 ...