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Harm Reduction Journal, 2020 Background There are an estimated 3.2 million women who inject drugs worldwide, constituting 20% of all people who inject drugs. The limited data that are available suggest that women who inject drugs are at greater risk of HIV and viral hepatitis ...
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Harm reduction must be recognised an essential public health intervention during crises
Harm Reduction Journal, 2021 The COVID-19 had a substantial impact on the provision of harm reduction services for people who use drugs globally. These front-line public health interventions serve a population that due to stigma, discrimination and criminalisation, faces barriers to
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BMJ Open, 2023 Objectives To assess the awareness and predictors of seeing/hearing a drug alert in British Columbia (BC) and subsequent drug use behaviour after seeing/hearing an alert.Methods This study analysed the 2021 BC harm reduction client survey (HRCS)—a cross ...
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2021 Background Georgia has a significant risk of ongoing HIV and HCV outbreak. Within this context, harm reduction aims to reduce risk associated with drug use through community activities, such as peer recruitment and involvement.
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The Harm Principle and the Nature of Harm [PDF]
Utilitas, 2021 AbstractThis article defends the Harm Principle, commonly attributed to John Stuart Mill, against recent criticism. Some philosophers think that this principle should be rejected, because of severe difficulties with finding an account of harm to plug into it. I examine the criticism and find it unforceful. Finally, I identify a faulty assumption behind
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On the Harm of Imposing Risk of Harm [PDF]
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2021 AbstractWhat is wrong with imposing pure risks, that is, risks that don’t materialize into harm? According to a popular response, imposing pure risks is pro tanto wrong, when and because risk itself is harmful. Call this the Harm View. Defenders of this view make one of the following two claims.
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Harm reduction in Europe: a framework for civil society-led monitoring
Harm Reduction Journal, 2021 Background Civil society organisations (CSOs) play a vital role in developing and implementing effective measures to reduce the harms of drug use. They are also fundamental actors to monitor and evaluate programmes and policies for improvement.
Rafaela Rigoni +3 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2021 This paper reviews evidence of how drug control has been used to uphold colonial power structures in select countries. It demonstrates the racist and xenophobic impact of drug control policy and proposes a path to move beyond oppressive systems and ...
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To Cause Harm and to be Harmed by Others: New Perspectives on Alcohol's Harms to Others [PDF]
Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 2015 Objective To examine how sociodemographic factors and alcohol consumption are related to a four-way typology of causing harm to others and/or being harmed by othersș and one's own drinking. Data and Methods Data from the 2011 Danish national survey ( n = 2,569) were analyzed with multinomial logistic regression.
K. Seid, Abdu +3 more
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Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2021 Background British Columbia (BC) is in the midst of an opioid overdose crisis. Since 2017, smoking illicit drugs has been the leading mode of drug administration causing overdose death.
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