Forbes

Harm Reduction: An Innovative Approach To Reducing Risk

People have long put their health—even their lives—at risk with behaviors and actions that aren't good for them. Adventures, experiments, and indulgences have all added risk to human life throughout ...
STAT

There’s a real risk that harm reduction could be a fad

Harm reduction is having its moment in America. The doors of drug-related harm reduction have swung wide open after years of federal funding bans. Extensive opioid settlement payouts combined with an ...
extension.purdue.edu

Harm Reduction Brief

Communities and people in Indiana are adversely affected by substance use disorders. In Indiana, 1 in 12 people meet criteria for a SUD the term used in the medical field for drug and alcohol abuse ...
Science Daily

Researchers show why cannabis policies should shift to a harm reduction, health promotion approach to safeguard public health

A new paper explains why there needs to be a shift in cannabis policies to a public health approach as opposed to the prevailing, more punitive approach that pushes abstinence instead of public ...
Business Insider

Experts explain how people with an addiction can still seek help even when they're not ready to quit

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First reading: Feds signal departure from 'harm reduction' approach to overdose crisis

First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version ...
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Harm reduction techniques being phased out under Trump

The Trump administration is escalating its push against what has become a key part of the way states, localities and communities respond to the overdose epidemic: harm reduction. A public health ...
The Nation Newspaper

Harm reduction should guide tobacco regulations, say medical experts

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 ...
Mission Local

S.F. ‘recovery first’ drug plan sees key word change after criticism from advocates

District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey’s “recovery first” ordinance advanced to the full 11-member Board of Supervisors today after a 3-0 vote at the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee. But ...
Psychology Today

Harm Reduction

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 ...
City Journal

Harm-Reduction Fantasies

New York City is in the throes of a deadly heroin epidemic cutting across boundaries of race and class. The death toll from overdoses now outpaces that from homicides. On Staten Island alone, overdose ...