The tiny vial and syringe sitting on Kim Brown’s kitchen table may not look like much, but to many, it’s something that can make a big impact in the war on opioids. “That’s really all you need to save ...

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

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

Samson Tafolo, left, and Crushow Herring, in knit hat, distribute harm reduction supplies from the Sidewalk Project on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles on March 26, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles ...

Groups dedicated to keeping drug users healthy — and alive — have thrived during the past decade to counter the staggering toll of the nation’s overdose crisis. They hit the streets to distribute ...

The powerful sedative is at the center of overdose deaths. Xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer known on the street as "tranq," is a cheap and powerful sedative that's infiltrating the nation's drug ...

Harm reduction advocates in New Jersey are pushing back after $45 million in opioid settlement funds, originally targeted to grassroots organizations, were instead redirected to several large hospital ...

Narcan is just one brand of a drug called Naloxone, a drug used to help revive patients who are in mid-opioid overdose, essentially bringing them back from the brink of death. This tool is so useful ...

This month's Group Chat features a discussion on reproductive health, harm reduction and community care. There are few words that polarize people as much as abortion. But how do the people who provide ...

SPRINGFIELD — Until now, a comprehensive study to understand how new and existing programs can reduce overdose deaths and transmission of HIV and hepatitis C has never been conducted across New ...

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 ...