AA. NA. CA. These are all familiar acronyms that reflect the various 12-step, abstinence-based treatments that are designed to help an individual maintain sobriety. These self-supported fellowships ...

Harm reduction is an approach to treating those with alcohol and other substance-use problems that does not require patients to commit to complete abstinence before treatment begins. Instead, an array ...

Quitting alcohol or drugs was not a top priority for people experiencing homelessness in a harm reduction treatment study, yet participants still reduced their use of both. A different approach than ...

Refat Rasul Srejon, MPH, says reducing opioid-related emergency department (ED) visits among young adults requires strategies like medication-assisted treatment and targeted outreach. He discusses why ...

There has been a lot of attention on the charges filed against the former COO of the Harm Reduction Coalition of San Diego involving alleged misuse of county grant funds that were designated for ...

For as long as the federal government has worked to support substance use treatment, it has operated on a simple premise: Addiction medicine’s objective is to help people using drugs stop — completely ...

As a cannabis epidemiologist with fifteen years of experience studying cannabis – and as a medical cannabis patient myself – I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how science assesses and labels ...

The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host “Overcoming Stigma and Increasing Access: Challenges in Harm Reduction and Medication-Assisted ...

The Lurie administration is limiting the distribution of harm-reduction supplies, and otherwise appears to be pivoting from harm reduction as a key strategy for mitigating the dangers of drug ...

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SEATTLE, Wash. – Quitting alcohol or drugs was not a top priority for people experiencing homelessness in a harm reduction treatment study, yet participants still reduced their use of both. A ...