Adolescent drug use often triggers moral panics, fear-mongering and the passage of draconian laws to “keep the kids safe” by ...

Steven Greenhut, Western Region Director, R Street Institute  In OPPOSITION to House Bill 1563, “Relating to Tobacco Products” March 4, 2026 House Committee on Finance Chairman Todd and members of the ...

As the overdose crisis has climbed to a tragic 100,000 deaths per year, momentum is growing for the public health solution to the overdose crisis: harm reduction. Our current system fuels the crisis ...

Every year the President’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), informally referred to as the “Drug Czar’s office,” releases a national drug control strategy announcing priorities for the ...

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 ...

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Evidence has shown that strategies promoting abstinence, or encouraging a zero-tolerance approach to substance abuse, have little impact on curbing risky behaviors. Harm reduction is an approach that ...

The nation’s opioid epidemic, which was initially assumed to have peaked in 2017, was briefly eclipsed by all the attention around the COVID-19 pandemic. But the country slowly emerges from the ...

Harm reduction has long been considered a nonjudgmental, evidence-based approach to drug use that reduces overdose deaths and infectious disease—adverse consequences exacerbated by the war on drugs.

Communities and people in Indiana are adversely affected by substance use disorders. In Indiana, 1 in 12 people meet criteria for a SUD the term used in the medical field for drug and alcohol abuse ...