For a few years now, we've known that most San Franciscans support mandatory treatment for people on the streets dealing with ...

Why is harm reduction important? Created with Sketch. The disease model of addiction that treats abstinence as the only solution doesn’t work for everyone. Experts on harm reduction say it’s ...

Programs that offer services to support drug users and decrease overdose deaths worry the Trump administration's sweeping ...

The approach uses the philosophy of harm reduction, better known in the arenas of drug addiction and public health. Harm reduction aims to be practical and nonjudgmental, offering help without ...

Last August, Denver’s city council passed a proclamation endorsing radical “harm reduction ... suffering and addiction. In Europe, only Sweden and the U.K. have tested safer supply, both in the 1960s.

Newly elected mayor Daniel Lurie has decided to move the city away from this failed model. Now, San Francisco ... s public health department required addiction-services providers to “develop harm ...

SB 203 would follow the same model, calling for the immediate end to clean syringe distribution. Harm reduction facilities ... with current approaches to addiction within the state, Angel ...

Some 56 percent of all 570 homicides in England and Wales were related to drugs—highlighting the ineffectiveness of the “harm ...