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 ...

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

A study covering data from 11 countries found that the vending machines are accessed by their intended audiences, and do reduce harm.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Programs that offer services to support drug users and decrease overdose deaths worry the Trump administration's sweeping federal overhaul will have far-reaching ramifications for their work.