L.A. harm reduction groups await fate 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 ...

Alarm is growing among harm reduction proponents that the Trump administration’s health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is shifting the nation’s strategy to tackle the drug crisis ...

Because of this, harm-reduction activists sometimes argue that governments should provide a free supply of unadulterated, “safe” drugs to get users to abandon the dangerous street supply. Or they say ...

I don’t view that as harm reduction, I view that as enabling.” Harm reduction advocates, however, don’t see it that way, arguing that drug users are going to use regardless.

Since the start of 2025, Narcan — also known by generic name naloxone — has reversed a known 5,635 overdoses in Ohio.

Colorado harm reduction agencies look to more opioid overdose reversal drugs 02:32. Narcan is just one brand of a drug called Naloxone, a drug used to help revive patients who are in mid-opioid ...

Harm reduction advocate Marissa Bonnie displays a syringe used to administer Naloxone, a highly effective overdose reversal drug, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on March 18, 2024.

The Baltimore City government’s expansion of drug harm reduction efforts may have a limited impact on overdose death rates, according to some recent studies. Baltimore won nearly $700 million in ...

As San Francisco scales back some harm reduction programs amid the city’s crackdown on open-air drug markets, UCSF doctors are raising concerns and emphasizing the integral role that such public ...