Grassroots public health efforts and shifts in drug use have contributed to the sharp decline in overdose deaths.

Cuts to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration are causing some to worry, while others are celebrating ...

A vending machine outside an Asbury Park clinic carries syringes, kits for using crack and Narcan to fight overdoses. It's ...

Those who've battled addiction say getting all users drug-free sounds good in theory, but isn't a realistic goal for everyone. For that reason, they say continued support for harm reduction ...

But in late March, Vanguard Lab, an art and activist space on Sixth Street, where Dean did harm-reduction work, found out that it was caught up in federal cuts made by the Department of Government ...

With overdose deaths continuing to rise, a shift is unfolding in San Francisco: one that pits harm reduction orthodoxy ...

Harm reduction is a public health strategy designed to minimize the negative health, social, and legal impacts associated with drug use. Rather than relying ...

A grassroots organization is warning that the presence of Vancouver police is deterring people who use drugs from accessing harm reduction services in the Downtown Eastside, or DTES. Vancouver Pol ...

The head of a harm-reduction organization in Whitehorse is ... we may actually solve a lot of the addiction problems.

Kentucky officials argue the money is still critical for harm reduction efforts for Kentuckians with addiction, as overdose mortality rates in the commonwealth remain among the highest in the U.S ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- With overdose deaths continuing to rise, a shift is unfolding in San Francisco: one that pits harm reduction orthodoxy ... through jail stays and addiction.