Public health in Ghana is experiencing a dynamic period of transformation, one increasingly defined by the intersection of ...

Smokefree products are picking up speed in the tobacco business. The race is on for success in harm reduction: encouraging smokers to switch completely to reduced risk alternatives. Evidence of this ...

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 ...

Harm reduction initiatives, like syringe services programs, can reduce HIV transmission among people who inject drugs. A recent executive order threatens such programs. (Photo by Robert ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Stakeholders in the health sector have been challenged to consider harm reduction as a key guide to drive public health strategies in Africa. Harm reduction refers to interventions aimed at reducing ...

Following Trump’s executive order designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, the Salt Lake Harm Reduction Project ...

(BCN) — The San Francisco Department of Public Health is planning to modify certain parts of its harm reduction strategies in tackling the city’s drug overdose crisis, the department said Tuesday ...

The Hochul administration is earmarking $4.5 million for "harm-reduction" strategies to combat New York's opioid epidemic. Stephen Yang The Hochul administration is pumping another $4.5 million into ...

A man suffering from long-term drug use who could only walk with extreme difficulty. Photo by Griffin Jones on July 8, 2023. Half a dozen public health and addiction experts interviewed by Mission ...

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 ...