Colombia's progressive drug policy reforms include the prioritisation of harm reduction, but campaigners fear advances are at risk. Jacqui Thornton reports.

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

Rhetoric from the White House risks growing misconceptions of what harm reduction is and, significantly, what it is not.

Two harm reduction vending machines will be placed outside of two hospitals in Dane County: SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital at the corner of S. Park and Erin Streets, and the UW Health University ...

The group says its mission is to reduce the number of kids in foster care and raise awareness about risks of using drugs ...

Drug overdose deaths in the United States made an unprecedented drop to the lowest they’ve been in five years, according to a new federal government estimate released Wednesday. During the Covid-19 ...

City staff tasked with removing dangerous debris from downtown parks collected 944 needles from the sites in a little over a ...

Public health experts called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to reform its approach to tobacco control and acknowledge ...

Groundbreaking device instantly detects dangerous street drugs, offering hope for harm reduction A portable device that instantly detects illicit street drugs at very low concentrations, thereby ...

The city will spend $1.6 million to put panic buttons in hundreds of bodegas after a string of recent violent deli incidents, Mayor Eric Adams announced Sunday. Up to 500 of the devices will be in ...

EPA's possible plans to lay off as many as 1,155 staffers in the office — as much as three-fourths of its workers — became public in March.Those cuts are part of a broader push by Zeldin to ...