Self-harm involves intentionally hurting one’s own body. A person can try various alternatives to self-harm, such as spending time with friends or pets, listening to music, or learning harm ...

A self-harm safety plan is a personalized tool with coping strategies and support contacts to help you manage self-harm urges or suicidal thoughts. Self-harm and suicide pose significant public health ...

In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs” and 52 years later the battle rages on – deadlier than ever. The crack era came and went in the 1980s, followed by the rural opioid crisis, ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. NINA MOINI: In Minnesota, deadly drug overdoses doubled between 2018 and 2023. And in Minneapolis, those deaths are disproportionately represented. In 2022 ...

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 ...

It’s been eight years since Doug Griffin lost his 20-year-old daughter Courtney to a fentanyl overdose. Her story, and Griffin’s loss, were featured during President Joe Biden’s Feb. 7 State of the ...

(CNN) — Megan walked the halls of her suburban Houston junior high in shame. It was the first time she had to attend school with bruises on her face from the abuse by her father, who was an alcoholic.

Mainline staff prepare syringes of “fake heroin” during a safe-injection training at the Mainline offices in Amsterdam on Thursday, March 6, 2025. Mainline is a harm reduction organization in the ...

Awareness of the harms to patients caused by errors in diagnosis and treatment has been front and center for nearly 25 years. A different kind of harm, this one affecting patients and clinicians, is ...

The opioid crisis is one of the most urgent public health challenges in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. experienced a significant ...

A team led by UC Berkeley researchers at the School of Public Health published a study Monday revealing an increase in self-harm among American adolescents, especially among young women and ...