More than 70,000 Americans overdosed on drugs in 2019, with 70 percent of those deaths caused by opioids, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. An increase in drug overdose deaths ...
Jose Martinez was jobless, homeless and stuck in what he calls the "chaotic part" of his drug use in 2015, after aging out of New York's foster care system seven years prior. Then staff at an overdose ...
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, ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There are a number of organizations in San Francisco doing important work to keep drug users from dying on the streets. Many are distributing self-help kits that contain ...
I spend most of my days in back alleys, under highways and in empty lots looking for people that need my support. I’m a harm reduction outreach worker and everyday me and my team distribute sterile ...
A drug recovery group in El Paso, Texas, that received a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services as part of the Biden administration's "harm reduction" program distributes crack pipes ...
The big purple truck that delivers health supplies to drug users in Chicago’s suburbs carries more than 100 items — everything from syringes and condoms to snacks and winter coats. But there’s one ...
FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Glass pipes designed for smoking drugs are now available at Fargo’s Harm Reduction Center. It’s a controversial addition that has nearly doubled the number of people ...
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 ...