GGD social worker Mohamed Bakayan (left) and Dutch police officer Bob Blankenzee (right) talk with a woman drinking from a bottle of wine on a bench in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Tuesday, March 11, ...

San Francisco, Philadelphia and others are retreating from “harm reduction” strategies that have helped reduce deaths but which critics, including Trump, say have contributed to pervasive public drug ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman walks past a person using a glass pipe to smoke drugs in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver in 2021. The Canadian ...

The White House’s newly released strategy for tackling the nation’s drug and addiction crisis calls for a number of ambitious public health approaches that some experts say are laudable but will be ...

B.C.'s drug decriminalization pilot project will expire on Jan. 31 and it is still unclear what that change might look like. The three-year pilot removed criminal penalties for the possession of small ...

OTTAWA, Ontario — The government of Canada on Tuesday walked back part of a program allowing people in British Columbia to possess small amounts of drugs, including heroin and cocaine, without fear of ...

In a move widely hailed as a failure for the drug decriminalization movement, Oregon restored criminal penalties for low-level drug possession in April. Headlines chalked up this policy reversal to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A harm reduction kit provided by Public Health – Seattle & King County includes clean syringes, drug preparation supplies, ...