Harm reduction is a public health approach that aims to help people with substance use disorders or other high-risk habits in a nonjudgmental way. Rather than condone or condemn their behavior, the ...

Though writing at the turn of the nineteenth century, Fichte's philosophy of recognition, freedom, and social obligation provides a systematic foundation for harm reduction - one that neither ...

Staff at the Harm Reduction Therapy Center discuss the implications of an increasingly hostile landscape in their city.

Harm reduction advocates are implementing solidarity-based strategies for curbing drug overdoses in Minneapolis. This story was copublished and supported by the journalism nonprofit the Economic ...

Harm reduction was adopted by public institutions to help stem the spread of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s. But it originated in self-advocacy by drug users, sex workers, and trans activists. Harm reduction, ...

In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs” and 52 years later the battle rages on – deadlier than ever. The crack era came and went in the 1980s, followed by the rural opioid crisis, ...

Harm reduction is having its moment in America. The doors of drug-related harm reduction have swung wide open after years of federal funding bans. Extensive opioid settlement payouts combined with an ...

Leah F. is a harm reductionist in Alabama. A full-time college student with EMT training, she runs one of the only harm reduction organizations in the state. Alabama law forbids some essential harm ...

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 ...