Kenneth Anderson is perhaps best known in the harm reduction movement as the founder and executive director of HAMS (Harm Reduction, Abstinence and Moderation Support)—a nonprofit support group with ...

Buying drugs on the dark web is often seen as a safer alternative to navigating an unpredictable, adulterated local supply. But is this notion consistently accurate? To put it to the test, a team of ...

Confrontational counseling, sometimes known as attack therapy, is most commonly associated with so-called “therapeutic communities” for people with addictions. It is worth noting that the term ...

Tamera Lynn Stewart had been taking prescribed opioids for 12 years to treat her chronic pain, following some cancer-related surgeries. Then one day in April 2018, her doctor told her he could no ...

The need for harm reduction around alcohol use is both pressing and obvious. Yet too often—in a field dominated on the one hand by concerns over use of banned drugs, and on the other by the ubiquity ...

The most famous anti-smoking campaign in history was branded, simply, as @truth. It was launched in 2000 by the American Legacy Foundation, a nonprofit organization funded with $1.5 billion from the ...

[This article is an adapted excerpt from On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance, which was published in Canada by Goose Lane Editions in September. An audiobook will be available ...

Vaping with flavors versus having to vape without them: The difference might sound trivial. But people whose lives have been transformed by tobacco harm reduction see it as existential. “The ...

Praised by politicians, parents and presidents, police officers taught DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) to fifth and sixth-grade students in around 75 percent of United States school districts ...

It’s afternoon on the Monday after the Fourth of July. My daughters, ages five and six, sit perched on the edges of their beds. They are surrounded by a wealth of toys. Stuffed animals, dolls and ...

The Drug Enforcement Administration plans to order emergency placements of 7-OH, cychlorphine and multiple substances related to each in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The actions ...

A misguided nurse coinciding with the arrival of medetomidine in the drug supply nearly proved fatal for me. In 2020, having recovered from heroin addiction years previously, I was working at an ...