A year after COVID-19 upended life for millions of Americans, there are troubling signs that the coronavirus may have also slowed progress against another deadly health...Harm Reduction
In nations where vaping is endorsed by health authorities, such as the United Kingdom, there have been real reductions in smoking. Elsewhere, billionaire Michael...
February 3rd, 2021Access to legal cannabis stores is associated with a reduction in opioid related deaths in the United States, particularly those linked to synthetic opioids such as...
January 13th, 2021‘Long COVID’ – a version of COVID-19 that results in continued illness of a significant number of people for many months after the initial disease has waned –...
January 13th, 2021The government and the tobacco lobby are squaring up for another round of appeals and counter-appeals in the South African courts, over the state’s right to ban...
October 28th, 2020It is time to recognise smoking for what it is – America’s longest-running and deadliest epidemic – and treat it with a commensurate sense of urgency, write the...
Most parents know or suspect when their child smokes, but they are much more likely to be in the dark if the child vapes or uses other tobacco products, according to a...Harm Reduction
A study from the Centres for Disease Control in the United States suggests that adolescent marijuana use is associated with numerous other health risk behaviours in high...
September 2nd, 2020Higher rates of e-cigarette and marijuana use in states in America did not result in more e-cigarette or vaping-related lung injuries – known as EVALI – according to...
October 15th, 2019
A decade after Congress gave the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the power to regulate tobacco products like e-cigarettes, the federal government has...
