The Biden administration recently announced the first 10 drugs that will be subject to price controls under Medicare as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. The president celebrated the occasion, ...

Simply defined, noise is unwanted sound. Efforts to manage noise in industrial spaces range from hearing protection for workers to blocking, breaking, absorbing, or isolating the noise at the source.

In the name of harm reduction, the substance abuse arm of the Health and Human Services Agency (HHS) will begin providing funds to help distribute “safe smoking kits” for the consumption of various ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

More than 70,000 Americans overdosed on drugs in 2019, with 70 percent of those deaths caused by opioids, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. An increase in drug overdose deaths ...

I spend most of my days in back alleys, under highways and in empty lots looking for people that need my support. I’m a harm reduction outreach worker and everyday me and my team distribute sterile ...