Safe injection facilities represent the highest ideal of harm reduction services for people who inject drugs, yet in the United States remain almost prohibitively controversial.
Health Equity & Social Justice
A few days before Christmas in 2015, a 54-year-old immigrant named Jose Manuel Azurdia Hernandez began vomiting in his cell at a detention center in Adelanto, California.
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San Diego hospitals seeking are trying to steer non-emergency patients away from emergency rooms. Why? And how is the trend affecting county ER wait times?
This story was published with the support of the USC Annenberg National Health Fellowship and the Fund for Journalism on Child Well-Being.
"It was Laos, and the elders, that taught me that we create community and community creates us," writes Vlai Ly, a Hmong-American writer and photographer working in Sacramento.
Discrimination and segregation in America are nothing new. Measuring their effects on health, however, is.
Matthew S. Bajko is a recipient of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's 2017 California Fellowship.
Health workers and a younger generation help Hmong elders overcome a devastating past in one Northern California community.
in 2017, the rate of suicide attempts for Hispanic teens in Texas was 11.4 percent, compared with 8.2 percent nationally, according to data from the CDC.
The practice of harm reduction seeks not to shame people who use drugs into giving them up, but simply to provide them with the tools to improve their health.