The Emergency Treatment Fund (ETF) is part of the Government of Canada's efforts to help communities rapidly respond to emerging, critical needs ...

In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs” and 52 years later the battle rages on – deadlier than ever. The crack era came and went in the 1980s, followed by the rural opioid crisis, ...

Harm reduction is having its moment in America. The doors of drug-related harm reduction have swung wide open after years of federal funding bans. Extensive opioid settlement payouts combined with an ...

Harm reduction is exactly what it sounds like: reducing the harm associated with using drugs through a variety of public health interventions. But the concept relies on more than these tools and ...

Harm reduction was adopted by public institutions to help stem the spread of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s. But it originated in self-advocacy by drug users, sex workers, and trans activists. Harm reduction, ...

Harm reduction is a public health approach that aims to help people with substance use disorders or other high-risk habits in a nonjudgmental way. Rather than condone or condemn their behavior, the ...