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The importance of drug checking outside the context of nightlife in Slovenia

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2018
Background The main purpose of the research was to evaluate the implementation of the drug checking service in Slovenia and to obtain the opinion of users included in harm reduction programmes for high-risk drug users and of drug users in nightlife ...
Matej Sande, Simona Šabić
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“They don’t go by the law around here”: law enforcement interactions after the legalization of syringe services programs in North Carolina

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background In 2016, the US state of North Carolina (NC) legalized syringe services programs (SSPs), providing limited immunity from misdemeanor syringe possession when law enforcement is presented documentation that syringes were obtained from an SSP ...
Brandon Morrissey   +7 more
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The harms of privacy [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Media Law, 2015
This paper aims to identify and order the harms or losses which the law might compensate (or more widely redress) in actions for breach of privacy. Part I identifies three such detriments, to which all the others are reducible: pecuniary loss, mental distress and breach of privacy per se. Part II seeks to explain why they cannot all coexist at the same
openaire   +4 more sources

They are Communities like You The Rationale for Animal Rights and Welfare in Islamic Civilization [PDF]

open access: yesİnsan & Toplum, 2021
Animal treatment has a comprehensive connotation and far-reaching implications in Islamic civilization. The rationes leges for this broader meaning in human-animal relations are the principles laid out in the two foundational sources of Islam, i.e., the ...
Necmettin Kızılkaya
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What Goes Around: the process of building a community-based harm reduction research project

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2017
Background Often, research takes place on underserved populations rather than with underserved populations. This approach can further isolate and stigmatize groups that are already made marginalized. What Goes Around is a community-based research project
Chelsea Jalloh   +6 more
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A step change model analysis of the establishment of pill testing in one Australian jurisdiction

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2023
This paper applies the theory of change model (Kotter in Harv Bus Rev 2:59–67, 1995; Moore et al. in Viet Nam J Public Health 1(1):66–75, 2013) to describe the pathway that lead to Australia’s first pill testing/drug checking services in Canberra, in the
David Caldicott   +4 more
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What is the harm in harmful conception? On threshold harms in non-identity cases [PDF]

open access: yesTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2014
Has the time come to put to bed the concept of a harm threshold when discussing the ethics of reproductive decision making and the legal limits that should be placed upon it? In this commentary, we defend the claim that there exist good moral reasons, despite the conclusions of the non-identity problem, based on the interests of those we might create ...
Williams, Nicola, Harris, John
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“We’ve Been Researched to Death”: Exploring the Research Experiences of Urban Indigenous Peoples in Vancouver, Canada

open access: yesInternational Indigenous Policy Journal, 2018
The belief among many Indigenous Peoples of being over-researched, often through questionable research practices, has generated mistrust towards researchers.
Ashley Goodman   +4 more
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The effect of different types of migration on symptoms of anxiety or depression and experience of violence among people who use or inject drugs in Kachin State, Myanmar

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Evidence on the social determinants of mental health conditions and violence among people who inject or use drugs (PWUD) is limited, particularly in conflict-affected countries.
Khine Wut Yee Kyaw   +5 more
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Gambling and (“Dark”) Flow. A holistic Study with Best Practice Cases on How to Minimize Harm

open access: yesAlmatourism, 2021
How to apply “minimize harm” as a guiding principle for regulating, redesigning, and running the gambling industry/business? The article looks at gambling through the flow concept using a four-dimensional frame of reference. The attempt is to analyze the
Knut Ims
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