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 ...

The image on the billboard that appeared in downtown San Francisco in early 2020 would have been familiar to anyone who’d ever seen a beer commercial: Attractive young people laughing and smiling as ...

Harm reduction is exactly what it sounds like: reducing the harm associated with using drugs through a variety of public health interventions. But the concept relies on more than these tools and ...

Harm reduction was adopted by public institutions to help stem the spread of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s. But it originated in self-advocacy by drug users, sex workers, and trans activists. Harm reduction, ...

FOR A HISTORY of recent drugs policy in America, look to a decommissioned church in Philadelphia. Still home to a forlorn-looking organ, it is now Prevention Point, a non-profit trying to help addicts ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- With overdose deaths continuing to rise, a shift is unfolding in San Francisco: one that pits harm reduction orthodoxy against a growing call for sobriety-based supportive ...