Excerpted from "The Harm Reduction Gap: Helping Individuals Left Behind by Conventional Drug Prevention and Abstinence-Only Addiction Treatment" by Sheila P. Vakharia ...

It’s early evening in mid-December when a middle aged man walks up to the pharmacy counter at a Walgreens in Asheville. He asks to buy a bag of syringes. The pharmacy technician walks to grab them ...

I ask a lot of questions. It's what I do for a living. So when a routine visit to my local pharmacy to buy syringes and insulin for my diabetic dog took an unexpected turn this week, questions came to ...