Dr. Carl Hart underscores perceptions of risk can be mediated by biases and feed into stigmatising narratives

Faced with real-life scenarios, public support for capital punishment drops to well under 20%.

While federal authorities could appeal the decision, the ruling is a step in the right direction towards implementing these evidence-based and compassionate services in the US.

Personal consumption allowances in Ecuador went from 50 grams of cocaine in 2008 to 1 gram in 2015. This rollback occurred largely due to an absence of public support for decriminalisation efforts.

Harm reduction workers in Afghanistan face an unjust paradox: Despite providing key support for people who use drugs and people living with HIV, they are often excluded from the public health community.

Most states host some kind of syringe exchange program, but the laws providing legal protection tend to have loopholes. In Pennsylvania, someone with a syringe obtained from a program is safe in Philadelphia, a more liberal part of the state, but can be thrown into jail anywhere else.

Often at great risk, grassroots and community-led activism often fills gaps in service provision resulting from domestic laws.

This documentary documents the struggle of people living with HIV in Russia, where basic harm reduction and life-saving services are virtually inexistent .

This documentary documents the struggle of people living with HIV in Russia, where basic harm reduction and life-saving services are virtually inexistent .

As Western Europe's harm reduction programs became mainstream and nationalised, the grass-root activism that created the movement is fading and progress is slowed down.