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The Open Society Foundations (OSF), a grant-making network based in New York City, is a longtime proponent of harm reduction.

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 ...

In a pilot study of Penn undergraduates, 39% of respondents reported using alcohol or other recreational drugs for the express purpose of combating stress. Penn’s primary substance use resource hub is ...

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 ...

Two studies have found that harm reduction vending machines installed across New York State are well utilized and provide ...

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 ...

Giving addicts syringes to shoot up was never a popular idea. It still isn’t. Despite medical authorities’ confident assertions that such programs dramatically cut down on disease transmission, ...

MINOT — To understand why harm reduction works, as a public policy, we must first consider what doesn’t work. Prohibition doesn’t work. We tried it with alcohol, and it was one of the most spectacular ...

SPRINGFIELD — Until now, a comprehensive study to understand how new and existing programs can reduce overdose deaths and transmission of HIV and hepatitis C has never been conducted across New ...

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 ...