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

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — Last year, 90 people in Sangamon County died from overdoses. Tiara Standage, Executive Director of Intricate Minds, is using her organization to try to reduce that number ...

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, ...

Milwaukee adds eight new harm reduction vending machines to combat the opioid crisis and gun violence, bringing the total to 19. Milwaukee adds eight new harm reduction vending machines to combat the ...

FOR A HISTORY of recent drugs policy in America, look to a decommissioned church in Philadelphia. Still home to a forlorn-looking organ, it is now Prevention Point, a non-profit trying to help addicts ...

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 ...

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 ...

Samson Tafolo’s final count read 119. For 45 minutes, he had tugged a wagon packed with mini water bottles, hemp cigarettes and miscellaneous hygiene products around Skid Row, handing out the supplies ...

NOW IT NEEDS HELP TO KEEP THE MISSION GOING. BUT FIRST, THE FUTURE OF PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO HELP PEOPLE STRUGGLING WITH SUBSTANCE ABUSE HANG IN THE BALANCE AFTER FUNDING CUTS. THE SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND ...