Create an account or log in to save stories. NINA MOINI: In Minnesota, deadly drug overdoses doubled between 2018 and 2023. And in Minneapolis, those deaths are disproportionately represented. In 2022 ...

Across the Bay Area, coroners are reporting about half as many overdose deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl than during ...

PATERSON — One by one, the unhoused drug users living in an encampment along freight railroad tracks in the city's 4th Ward trudged through a hole in the fence when they saw the harm reduction workers ...

Los Angeles — Inside a bright new building in the heart of Skid Row, homeless people hung out in a canopy-covered courtyard — some waiting to take a shower, do laundry, or get medication for addiction ...

San Francisco, Philadelphia and others are retreating from “harm reduction” strategies that have helped reduce deaths but which critics, including Trump, say have contributed to pervasive public drug ...

Mainline staff prepare syringes of “fake heroin” during a safe-injection training at the Mainline offices in Amsterdam on Thursday, March 6, 2025. Mainline is a harm reduction organization in the ...

For drugs, harm reduction looks like giving people new needles to use so that they don’t share or reuse needles—reducing the risk of contracting a blood-borne disease. It looks like providing people ...

Overdose deaths in the U.S. have seen a significant decline, attributed at least in part to harm reduction strategies. The Trump administration proposes cuts to harm reduction funding, raising ...

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 ...

Local health officials fear an executive order dictating that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) can no longer fund harm reduction programs will accelerate the ...

The Trump administration is escalating its push against what has become a key part of the way states, localities and communities respond to the overdose epidemic: harm reduction. A public health ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — In some major cities across the United States, recent reporting from The New York Times finds that there's now a turn away from once-favored harm reduction efforts meant to blunt the ...