DHD 10's HOPE Project, a mobile harm reduction program, will now make weekly stops at Love in the Community, north of ...

Oak Lawn, Ill.-based Advocate Christ Medical Center’s pharmacy now provides certain emergency department patients with a free naloxone kit before discharge, making Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate ...

Naloxone, sold under the brand name Narcan, offers an over-the-counter medication that rapidly reverses the effects of opioid overdoses. Despite efforts to make it more widely available, high prices ...

A CU study found that Pueblo's short-lived ban on syringe distribution impacted local programs, resulting in fewer visits and naloxone kit distributions. Syringe distribution increased after the ban, ...

Excerpted from "The Harm Reduction Gap: Helping Individuals Left Behind by Conventional Drug Prevention and Abstinence-Only Addiction Treatment" by Sheila P. Vakharia ...

RAMSEY COUNTY, Minn. — Opioid overdose deaths in Minnesota increased dramatically during the COVID pandemic, but since then, new steps have been taken to help save lives. This year, the state ...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, “DO NOT USE.” They contain cookers and sterile water that people use to ...

It has been one year since the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office installed a naloxone vending machine at the Middlesex Jail & House of Correction, and officials said the machine has been used dozens of times ...

Boxes of Narcan nasal spray sit on a table at a syringe disposal event hosted by Shred the Stigma, a harm reduction nonprofit based in Oklahoma City. Narcan is the most commonly known form of naloxone ...

Co-locating COVID-19 vaccination and infectious disease testing with a syringe services program boosted engagement among people who injected drugs, according to an analysis of the Baltimore-based ...

ALBANY -- Thousands of New York City police officers should soon be carrying emergency antidotes to help deal with the recent spike in heroin overdoses. The New York state Attorney General's Office is ...