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Harm Reduction

The Healthier Communities program advances practical, evidence-based policies that respect individual liberty, harness free markets, and strengthen families and communities. Government is most effective when it is limited, targeted, and focused on outcomes—facilitating access to care, reducing preventable harms, and creating the conditions for families to thrive. These approaches promote healthier, more stable, and more resilient communities. Sign up for updates here.

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Explainers Behavioral Health, Federal Government Affairs, Harm Reduction, Healthier Communities, Opioid Harm Reduction

People With an Opioid Use Disorder Need Treatment Options

Stacey McKenna, Chelsea Boyd Sept 8, 2026
Explainers Behavioral Health, Federal Government Affairs, Harm Reduction, Healthier Communities, Opioid Harm Reduction

Why Treating OUD with Medication is Not Just Replacing One Addiction with Another

Stacey McKenna Sept 8, 2026
Policy Studies Behavioral Health, Harm Reduction, Healthier Communities, Substance Regulation

Beyond the Leaf: A Risk-Based Framework for Kratom, 7-OH, and Synthetic Derivatives

Jeffrey S. Smith Sept 8, 2026
Analysis Behavioral Health, Federal Government Affairs, Harm Reduction, Healthier Communities, Substance Regulation, Tobacco Harm Reduction

Smokers Wanting to Quit Need Guidelines on How Vaping Can Help

Jeffrey S. Smith Aug 14, 2026
Policy Studies Behavioral Health, Harm Reduction, Healthier Communities, Substance Regulation, Tobacco Harm Reduction

Ending the Cigarette Century: What Sweden, Japan, and New Zealand Reveal About Accelerating the Global End of Smoking

Jeffrey S. Smith July 30, 2026
Explainers Behavioral Health, Harm Reduction, Healthier Communities, Mental Health

Mental Health and Mental Illness

Chelsea Boyd July 29, 2026
Newsletters Behavioral Health, Harm Reduction, Healthier Communities, Safer Solutions, Substance Regulation, Tobacco Harm Reduction

Safer Solutions: Rethinking Smoking Cessation for People Who Use Drugs

Jessica Shortall, Chelsea Boyd July 22, 2026
Policy Studies Behavioral Health, Federal Government Affairs, Harm Reduction, Healthier Communities, Opioid Harm Reduction

Impact of Decriminalizing Buprenorphine Diversion

Stacey McKenna July 21, 2026
Letters Behavioral Health, Harm Reduction, Healthier Communities, Mental Health, Opioid Harm Reduction

Comments of the R Street Institute in Response to the Request for Information on Chronic Disease of Addiction

Stacey McKenna July 5, 2026
Op-Eds Behavioral Health, Harm Reduction, Healthier Communities, Mid-Atlantic, Opioid Harm Reduction, State Policy

How Maryland is expanding access to addiction treatment

Robert Melvin July 6, 2026 The Baltimore Sun

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