Twice a week, Coleman Cox drives more than an hour into controversy. He's headed to Vinita, Oklahoma, in the northern part of the Cherokee reservation, in a van stocked with clean syringes. The ...

Harm reduction — an umbrella term that takes in a variety of practices intended to lessen the damaging effects of drug use — has never been an easy sell. “It’s always been kind of a political football ...

For four years, the city and county health department gave out pipes and other supplies to reduce the health risks of smoking drugs. Officials say the program worked. But it conflicted with state ...

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 ...

Former Santa Cruz Police Chief Kevin Vogel’s recent disparaging comments about the Harm Reduction program in Santa Cruz are just plain wrong. As the former county health officer in charge of the ...

Lawmakers on Friday accused the Pentagon of gutting a congressionally mandated effort to reduce civilian harm during combat.

After rising exponentially since 1979, overdose rates have finally begun to decline, falling more than 29 percent since 2022. President Trump has repeatedly claimed that stopping these fatalities is a ...

The federal government will no longer pay for the thousands of test strips the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health sends by ...

On a Saturday afternoon last year, more than a dozen teenagers gathered in Denver to learn about naloxone, a medicinal nasal spray that can reverse an overdose of the synthetic drug fentanyl and other ...