During the height of its heroin crisis in the 1980s, the Netherlands chose a “third way” to respond to drug use — neither punishment nor abstinence, but harm reduction. Today, that approach has helped ...

The city of Birmingham is taking action to help combat the growing opioid epidemic, investing $1.5 million in local programs.

Militarization is making it harder for healthcare workers to reach people who use drugs. An older man receives a heroin ...

When the Narcan didn’t work I ran to the shelter to ask for help.” We put an oxygen mask on the patient and used a bag-valve-mask device to breathe for him. His color returned, and very shortly after ...