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How Harm Reduction Strategies Are Changing the Landscape of Tobacco Use

Harm reduction is an innovative and adaptive strategy in public health that provides a pragmatic framework for minimizing the negative health impacts of tobacco consumption. It recognizes that while ...
Medscape

Harm Reduction Programs Seek New Funding Sources

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

What Harm Reduction Really Looks Like

Harm reduction advocates are implementing solidarity-based strategies for curbing drug overdoses in Minneapolis. This story was copublished and supported by the journalism nonprofit the Economic ...
KJZZ

Harm reduction CEO says new Phoenix parks ordinance will lead to more overdoses, deaths

The Phoenix City Council approved a controversial new law that puts new restrictions in place about providing medical care in ...
Distractify on MSN

What brands, clinicians, and insurers want people to know about harm reduction

Here are a few basic practices you should implement before, during, and after an event to keep yourself and others safe.
Newsweek

Fentanyl Overdoses Remain High—Is Harm Reduction the Solution?

The opioid crisis is one of the most urgent public health challenges in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. experienced a significant ...

Harm reduction vending machines in New York State expand access to overdose treatment and drug test strips

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 ...
FiercePharma

Scientific and Operational Execution of Tobacco Harm Reduction Studies

Clinical and behavioral studies are cornerstones of any Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) submission, from pharmacokinetic to actual use investigations. This webinar will explore the ...
City & State New York

Harm Reduction: Lessons learned from the AIDS crisis

Giving addicts syringes to shoot up was never a popular idea. It still isn’t. Despite medical authorities’ confident assertions that such programs dramatically cut down on disease transmission, ...
inforum

Port: Harm reduction policies work for addicts and their communities

MINOT — To understand why harm reduction works, as a public policy, we must first consider what doesn’t work. Prohibition doesn’t work. We tried it with alcohol, and it was one of the most spectacular ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Voices: I’ve seen harm reduction save Utahns’ lives. But our programs need your support.

“I died this weekend,” a client told me recently. I work at a harm reduction non-profit in Salt Lake City, and I wish I could say this was the only time I’d heard that statement. We serve people who ...
YES! Magazine

Safer Sex Work

Harm reduction has long been considered a nonjudgmental, evidence-based approach to drug use that reduces overdose deaths and infectious disease—adverse consequences exacerbated by the war on drugs.