LAist

At Skid Row Care Campus, homeless neighbors chart their own path to services

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Floyd Howard Jr. calls it his comfort ...
Medical Xpress

What correctional officers think about harm-reduction services for incarcerated people with drug addictions

Opioids, including the best known—morphine, heroin and fentanyl—have been gaining popularity over the last few decades. Although officially banned, these painkillers still find their way into prisons ...

Harm reduction vending machines in New York State expand access to overdose treatment and drug test strips

Two studies led by an opioid treatment program run by the University at Buffalo and UBMD Emergency Medicine have found that harm reduction vending machines installed across New York State are well ...
Psychology Today

Harm Reduction

Harm reduction is an approach to treating those with alcohol and other substance-use problems that does not require patients to commit to complete abstinence before treatment begins. Instead, an array ...
EurekAlert!

Harm reduction vending machines in New York State expand access to overdose treatment and drug test strips, UB studies confirm

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Two studies led by an opioid treatment program run by the University at Buffalo and UBMD Emergency Medicine have found that harm reduction vending machines installed across New York ...
KGW8

Despite headwinds, harm reduction still has strong backing in the Portland area

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 ...