Harm reduction is mercy translated into public reason. It refuses to abandon those who have not yet succeeded in saving themselves. It embodies what the theologian Paul Tillich called “the courage to ...

According to King County, harm reduction is the science. Everything else is cruelty dressed up as tough love. The ...

Over the years, I’ve worked with a number of individuals who have out of control or compulsive sexual behaviors. In the past, these folks may have been designated as “sex addicts,” but the field is ...

The harm reduction model dominates here in King County — de facto safe injection sites, free pipes, no pressure to get clean. The theory sounds compassionate: meet people where they are, reduce ...

Recently in Street Sense, there was a feature supporting harm reduction strategies used in combating drug use. Things like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lisa Raville works as the executive director of the Harm Reduction Action Center in Denver. (Sara Wilson/Colorado Newsline) A few ...

We Need To Do the Opposite of What We’ve Been Doing to Solve Our Addiction Crisis Why have we been doing such a terrible job of helping people who struggle with drugs? Most addiction treatment in this ...

Behind these policies stand rival pictures of the human condition-one that prizes purity and control, another that accepts fragility and compromise as the ground of moral life. In the twentieth ...