GHJP understands harm reduction as foundational for health justice for people who use drugs and their communities. As such, we work to support and advocate for harm reduction-based initiatives in New ...

Following the tragic deaths of two college students in Mississippi, Southwest Louisiana recovery advocates are stressing the ...

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 ...

I would like to talk to you briefly today about an important concept in public policy and regulation, the idea of “harm reduction.” The idea of harm reduction sounds noncontroversial, or at least it ...

As the overdose crisis in the United States continues — more than 100,000 people died of overdose in 2021, a new record — the practice of harm reduction is gaining new traction as a possible solution ...

People have long put their health—even their lives—at risk with behaviors and actions that aren't good for them. Adventures, experiments, and indulgences have all added risk to human life throughout ...

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 ...

A public health advocate has urged Nigeria to develop an evidence-based tobacco harm reduction policy to complement existing ...

Harm reduction experts have poked holes in sections of the Tobacco Control (Amendment) Bill of 2024, calling for their amendment before the Bill is passed by members of parliament in the National ...

Harm reduction is exactly what it sounds like: reducing the harm associated with using drugs through a variety of public health interventions. But the concept relies on more than these tools and ...