This training is free of charge but donations are accepted to support direct harm reduction programming in Chicago. The trainer is Sarz Maxwell, MD. The training ...

Addiction psychotherapy—treating problematic substance use and addictions in individual therapy—is quite effective and can be deeply rewarding. In my experience, people enjoy the individualized nature ...

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 ...

Jan. 30—Drugs are in our community and many people don't know what to look for or how to help until it impacts someone they care about. According to Kris Paulus, licensed clinical social worker in ...

Sarena Chichester and Patrick Javarone, members of St. Mary’s Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team, take notes during a Montgomery County sponsored harm reduction training to combat the drug ...

Local health officials fear an executive order dictating that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) can no longer fund harm reduction programs will accelerate the ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Amid what feels like an ever-worsening drug crisis here, locals and politicians alike are fed up. Overdose death rates remain near all-time highs. The Tenderloin, a historic downtown ...