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Topic: Harm Reduction

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"Bad trips" can have surprising benefits

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Narcan and fentanyl test strips are available for free at the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Fighting Trump’s harm reduction cuts

Niko Vorobyov
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Will Trump go after harm reduction?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Green kratom powder, capsule and beverage (Getty Images/Betka82)

Kratom is a "blessing and a curse"

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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President Donald J. Trump speaks while Small Business Administration Linda McMahon listens on during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Let's compromise with Trump on education

MacKenzie Price
Tests strips, used to detect the presence of fentanyl and xylazine in different kinds of drugs, such as cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin, lay next to a bag of heroin at St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction in New York City on May 25, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Overdose deaths continue to decline: CDC

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A staff member packs overdose prevention kits, including Narcan nasal spray used to treat narcotic overdoses in an emergency situation, at St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction in New York City on April 24, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Overdoses decline but not for everyone

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Manager of overdose prevention secures covers on returned full sharps containers at the 6th Street Harm Reduction Center operated by the SF AIDS Foundation in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday, June 2, 2017. (Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Overdose crisis takes toll on responders

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Carrie Hankins, of Jefferson County Public Health, holds a Fentanyl test strip during an event held at Lakewood Library on August 25, 2022 in Lakewood, Colorado. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Lawmakers buy into fentanyl touch myth

Claire Zagorski, Ryan Marino
Sean "Diddy" Combs attends Black Tie Affair For Quality Control's CEO Pierre "Pee" Thomas at Fox Theater on June 02, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

Diddy's alleged love for "pink cocaine"

Manisha Krishnan
Close-up Of Hands Holding A Vape And Cigarettes (Getty Images/AndreyPopov)

Black Americans need tobacco substitutes

Robert “Bob” Beamon
A medical student displays a pouch of Narcan, which is used to revive an overdose, at a Remote Area Medical (RAM) mobile dental and medical clinic on October 07, 2023 in Grundy, Virginia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Harm reduction is about ending stigma

Sheila P. Vakharia
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The young woman holds onto the prescription bottle while she listens to the doctor (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

FDA calls for new meds for stimulant use

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Bottles of the generic prescription pain medication Buprenorphine are seen in a pharmacy (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Why aren't we using addiction meds?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Opioid settlement cash going to police

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Empty xylazine bottle found on the streets of Philadelphia (Christopher Moraff / Narcomedia)

"Tranq dope" spreads to more cities

Troy Farah
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Rainbow fentanyl — fentanyl pills and powder that come in a variety of bright colors, shapes, and sizes (DEA)

Fear-mongering about fentanyl for kids

Troy Farah
Used hypodermic needles are seen in a bin at the India Street Public Health Center Needle Exchange in Portland, Maine. (Joel Page/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

Needle exchanges no longer a city thing

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez - KFF Health News
U.S. President Joe Biden (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Fact check: Biden's not a crack dealer

Jon Skolnik
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A progressive fix to the opioid crisis

Alexander Lekhtman - Alternet
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Sarah Beller
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