Ambassadors, like Delores Omole, are trained in harm reduction strategies and leverage their street smarts to connect ...

Harm reduction is an innovative and adaptive strategy in public health that provides a pragmatic framework for minimizing the negative health impacts of tobacco consumption. It recognizes that while ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. NINA MOINI: In Minnesota, deadly drug overdoses doubled between 2018 and 2023. And in Minneapolis, those deaths are disproportionately represented. In 2022 ...

Primary health care has particularly struggled to address the needs of PWUD. Primary care’s promise of increased provider continuity, improved treatment adherence, and disease prevention increases its ...

One hot summer evening in 2019, security called us out of our clinic located within the largest men’s shelter in Boston, Massachusetts: “Overdose, out front!” We grabbed the oxygen tank and emergency ...

The opioid crisis is one of the most urgent public health challenges in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. experienced a significant ...

Non-Hispanic White men the most likely to report having used the product. (HealthDay News) — The percentage of U.S. adults using nicotine pouches remains low, according to a research letter published ...

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 ...

As mental health professionals are well aware, self-harm and suicide are serious concerns in people with schizophrenia. Early intervention services (EIS) for patients with first-episode schizophrenia ...

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 ...