Press Room

To combat the overdose crisis in the Milwaukee area, the grassroots harm reduction and recovery organization Samad’s House, the City of Milwaukee Office of African American Affairs, and Clean Slate Milwaukee, with support from Vital Strategies, will be offering overdose prevention education throughout the city’s Juneteenth parade.

Statement by Dan Kass, Senior Vice President, Environment, Climate & Urban Health, Vital Strategies, on Canadian Wildfires and Air Quality Alerts Across U.S.

The Eastern Mediterranean region can benefit from organized tobacco control efforts, as shown by the results of a single regional campaign that reached 50 million people across Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine in the summer and fall of 2022. 

“For the first time, a country has taken steps to regulate content on streaming media services to protect people from tobacco, the world’s leading preventable killer. Netflix and other services expose billions to content that glamorizes tobacco. We applaud India for taking this bold, first step, and encourage other governments to follow.”

Statement from José Luis Castro, President and CEO of Vital Strategies, on World No Tobacco Day, May 31, 2023.

Selected youth fellows will provide harm reduction education and advocate for accessible, evidence-based drug policies, especially among young people from Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other communities of color. 

Vital Strategies announced its first set of Kentucky-based projects as part of a five-year, $10 million commitment to expanding harm reduction approaches and reducing overdose deaths in the state.

Ultimately, the Racial Equity Workgroup will produce a set of recommendations for the Michigan Opioids Taskforce. The workgroup will be supported by a team from Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Vital Strategies, Michigan Liberation, and Reframe Health and Justice.

To address the overdose crisis in Wisconsin, Gwayakobimaadiziwin Bad River Harm Reduction and NEXT Distro are launching a new program that provides free harm reduction supplies to individuals in Wisconsin via mail.

Vital Strategies Applauds Overdue Change and Urges Private and Public Insurance to Cover Lifesaving Intervention and State Governments to Continue Funding Free Naloxone.