An experimental fentanyl vaccine has shown promise in early-stage human trials. Dr. Kristen Gilliland, a neuroscientist who ...

First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version ...

I would like to talk to you briefly today about an important concept in public policy and regulation, the idea of “harm reduction.” The idea of harm reduction sounds noncontroversial, or at least it ...

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 ...

A large study links the use of e-cigarettes after smoking cessation to higher lung cancer incidence and mortality than complete nicotine abstinence.

As the overdose crisis in the United States continues — more than 100,000 people died of overdose in 2021, a new record — the practice of harm reduction is gaining new traction as a possible solution ...

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 ...

People have long put their health—even their lives—at risk with behaviors and actions that aren't good for them. Adventures, experiments, and indulgences have all added risk to human life throughout ...

BUFFALO, NY – The Biden administration is tackling the opioid crisis through harm reduction, a new approach to the nation’s drug policies that University at Buffalo drug policy historian David ...

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 ...