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

Experts say Rochester's bid to restrict needle exchanges in response to residents who complain will make the city's drug ...

Plastic surgery. Streaming subscriptions. Trips to Disneyland and Hawaii. At least $132,000 in San Diego County funds were illegally spent on those and other personal expenses, prosecutors alleged ...

Missy Jellison, peer navigator & mobile delivery coordinator at Harm Reduction Sisters, makes a list of supplies for a client at the nonprofit organization’s drop-in window on Wednesday, March 11, ...

The Supreme Court of Canada has described the right to refuse unwanted medical treatment as “fundamental to a person’s dignity and autonomy, [including] in the context of treatment for mental illness.

Readers respond to a guest essay about the city’s recent efforts to reduce drug use and homelessness. To the Editor: Re “It Was West Coast Progressivism at Its Worst. Not Anymore,” by German Lopez ...

Sam Ben-Meir is an assistant adjunct professor of philosophy at City University of New York, College of Technology. Harm reduction is not a lowering of standards or moral compromise; it is the ...

This paper argues that street medicine should be formally integrated into clinical ethics frameworks and medical professional standards as an ethic of harm reduction. Drawing on widely cited harm ...

Objectives The roles of pharmacy staff have expanded to include public health functions, such as delivering harm reduction services for people who use drugs (PWUD), particularly unregulated substances ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sarah Sinclair is an award-winning journalist covering cannabis. The cannabis beverage market has seen significant growth in the U ...

Maintaining harm reduction services in the Australian Capital Territory could deliver more than $250 million in health and societal benefits between 2026 and 2030 and avert dozens of overdose deaths, ...

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