Harm Reduction

Some educators are abandoning scare tactics and turning to harm reduction.

Mass incarceration and the opioid crisis are forcing politicians to consider decriminalizing addiction, advocates say.

Cait Vaughan fights for health care rights in a state that refused to expand Medicaid.

Politicians are proposing drug reforms that have long been dismissed as too radical for discussion.

What does it mean for people on the left, who often don't believe in elections or the governments they empower, to engage in the electoral process on practical terms?

Team Trump seems eager to return to a time when health problems like drug misuse were blamed on moral decay.

These amendments would fuel mass incarceration, separate families and cause more pain in communities suffering from drug problems.

Lifting the ban on federal funding for syringe exchange programs would be a long-awaited victory for public health advocates.

Women who've lived with addiction are offering support to pregnant drug users through harm reduction strategies.

Some reformers fear the White House's new plan for treating heroin addiction as a public health issue will actually fuel the failed war on drugs.