Over the past four years, nearly 7,000 people have injected, smoked or otherwise used street drugs like fentanyl and cocaine ...

Boulder Care, a virtual substance use disorder (SUD) provider, has appointed a nationally recognized addiction medicine ...

Addiction psychotherapy—treating problematic substance use and addictions in individual therapy—is quite effective and can be deeply rewarding. In my experience, people enjoy the individualized nature ...

Two studies led by an opioid treatment program run by the University at Buffalo and UBMD Emergency Medicine have found that harm reduction vending machines installed across New York State are well ...

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

There are many different ways to quantify the opioid crisis. The obvious is the dramatic rise in deaths from overdoses. Let’s not overlook the number of overdoses themselves – often as recorded by ...

Harm reduction is an approach to drug use and addiction that emphasizes reducing the negative consequences associated with drug use. The concept often faces challenges or resistance, especially in ...

Like many who have endured childhood trauma, Shannon Hicks turned to drugs at an early age. Pregnant by 16 and a mother of two by 19, she was married and living in her first home — believing she was ...

Beetham, T. (2019). Buprenorphine prior authorization removal: Low hanging fruit in the opioid overdose crisis. Harvard Public Health Review, 25. 5. Bell, J., Reed, K ...

Opioids, including the best known—morphine, heroin and fentanyl—have been gaining popularity over the last few decades. Although officially banned, these painkillers still find their way into prisons ...

Robert Melvin, Northeast Region Director, R Street Institute In Support of SB 36: “Child abuse or neglect; prenatal use of a controlled substance or drug as prescribed.” January 23, 2026 Senate ...