NYC's OnPoint NYC has reported nearly 2000 overdose interventions, but the future of its expansion is uncertain.
As in most of the modern world, Kenyans are not immune to partaking in pleasures that are ultimately harmful to our health. The temptations of the pleasures - whether it's alcohol, smoking or junk ...
“Harm reduction” interventions for substance use – measures like needle exchange programs and methadone distribution that aim to reduce the adverse effects of substance use, rather than punish or ...
A man suffering from long-term drug use who could only walk with extreme difficulty. Photo by Griffin Jones on July 8, 2023. Half a dozen public health and addiction experts interviewed by Mission ...
West & Central Africa has reiterated the importance of Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) as a pragmatic, science-based public ...
Harm reduction is the strategy of reducing the harms associated with drug use, not necessarily by reducing the amount that people use but by reducing the harms associated with use. Providing syringes ...
Experts explain how people with an addiction can still seek help even when they're not ready to quit
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Excerpted from "The Harm Reduction Gap: Helping Individuals Left Behind by Conventional Drug Prevention and Abstinence-Only Addiction Treatment" by Sheila P. Vakharia ...
This story originally published online at UNC Media Hub. After Bella Grumet, a UNC-Chapel Hill senior majoring in neuroscience, lost a close friend to an overdose last year, she was motivated to ...
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