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What brands, clinicians, and insurers want people to know about harm reduction

Here are a few basic practices you should implement before, during, and after an event to keep yourself and others safe.
Boulder Weekly

Harm reduction 101

The opportunity to see a doctor, to get a job, to get information and non-judgemental support. The opportunity to stay alive. Today, Martinez is the capacity building and Hepatitis C coordinator for ...
unr.edu

Overdose education and harm reduction program offered for free on campus to the University community

“We hope this is information that you’ll never need to use, but now you have it if you ever do.” This is the closing message of a very informative training video now available to all students, faculty ...

Fentanyl deaths are down across the Bay Area. One county’s harm reduction group says it’s proof their strategy is working.

Across the Bay Area, coroners are reporting about half as many overdose deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl than during ...
KRQE Blogs

Music festivals have become more open to harm reduction initiatives. How far will it go?

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — The sounds of muffled ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Wisconsin has seen progress in reducing overdose deaths. Trump's cuts could upend that.

Overdose deaths in the U.S. have seen a significant decline, attributed at least in part to harm reduction strategies. The Trump administration proposes cuts to harm reduction funding, raising ...
Mission Local

S.F. ‘recovery first’ drug plan sees key word change after criticism from advocates

District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey’s “recovery first” ordinance advanced to the full 11-member Board of Supervisors today after a 3-0 vote at the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee. But ...
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Harm reduction techniques being phased out under Trump

The Trump administration is escalating its push against what has become a key part of the way states, localities and communities respond to the overdose epidemic: harm reduction. A public health ...
City Journal

The Shaky Science Behind Harm Reduction and Pediatric Gender Medicine

Over the past decade, North America embraced two disastrous public health movements: pediatric gender medicine and “harm reduction” for drug use. Though seemingly unrelated, these movements are ...
LAist

At Skid Row Care Campus, homeless neighbors chart their own path to services

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Floyd Howard Jr. calls it his comfort ...
KCCI Des Moines

Narcan kits in harm reduction vending machines and boxes effective even with summer change

club administrator at Marshalltown High School. He resigned in As we continue to see a growing number of emergency vending machines and boxes carrying the life saving drug NARCAN and other supplies ...