Across the Bay Area, coroners are reporting about half as many overdose deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl than during ...
A new Science paper links the sharp decline in U.S. overdose deaths since 2023 to reduced fentanyl potency, pointing to a ...
A young man approached a card table set up under the Green Line tracks on the city’s West Side and asked the woman behind it ...
Seattle and San Francisco scale back harm reduction policies distributing drug supplies, signaling a shift in how West Coast ...
Blue cities are moving away from so-called harm reduction strategies in combating overdose deaths from use of hard drugs. Harm reduction aims to decrease the negative consequences of risky behavior ...
Most hospitals already offer naloxone to anyone treated for an opioid overdose, but two hospitals are investigating whether ...
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 ...
Townhall II has added a 2nd harm reduction vending machine in Portage County, along with test strips to check for harmful ...
When it comes to trying to reduce the devastation that accompanies the use of illicit drugs, experts say Michigan is working against itself. Here's what's happening: In an effort to keep people alive, ...
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 ...
The latest debate about San Francisco’s drug policies centers on a one-sentence policy and how the city should define a person’s “recovery” from addiction. As Supervisor Matt Dorsey pushes the city to ...
Health Canada granted B.C. an exemption from the federal Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to decriminalize personal ...