harm reduction

The District of Columbia Department of Health recently posted a message on “X” to get residents to abandon nicotine e‑cigarettes. The message stated:

Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that recreational drug users

If you need further evidence that the tobacco-control movement has lost its way, consider this December 1 story from

The past year has seen the publication of many studies alleging that e-cigarette use (vaping) carries very serious health consequences, everything from depression to erectile dysfunction and higher stroke risk.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported a devastating 108,000 overdose deaths in 2021.

The Food and Drug Administration has dealt two deadly blows to tobacco harm reduction in the past two days.

Regulators and policymakers are on the warpath against vaping.

Mounting evidence shows that e-cigarette use (vaping) can help smokers give up combustible tobacco for good, even if they have no intention to quit.

Interested in a simple, common-sense way to make street drugs much safer? This would go a long way toward mitigating our misnamed "opioid overdose crisis." Why misnamed?

Last month, Gov. Dan McKee signed legislation making the Ocean State the first to legalize safe injection sites, dubbed “overdose prevention sites” by harm-reduction advocates. Hopefully, Rhode Island won’t run into the same fe