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Harm Reduction

Radical History Review
Harm reduction and risk reduction: practices at the intersection of queer, addiction and antiracist activism, which refuses to ask the question of use and dependence from the point of view of eradication, and instead embarks on the definitively impure paths of mutual aid. A pleasure activism and everyday life willfulness, a poem for survival.
Bigé, Emma, Dormeau, Léna
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E-Cigarettes—a review of the evidence—harm versus harm reduction [PDF]

Tobacco Use Insights, 2022
The World Health Organization estimates there are 1.1 billion cigarette smokers across the globe and that tobacco related deaths number 7 million per year.
Susan Feeney, Victoria Rossetti, Jill Terrien   +2 more
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Sociotechnical Harms of Algorithmic Systems: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction [PDF]

AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2022
Understanding the landscape of potential harms from algorithmic systems enables practitioners to better anticipate consequences of the systems they build. It also supports the prospect of incorporating controls to help minimize harms that emerge from the
R. Shelby, Shalaleh Rismani, Kathryn Henne, AJung Moon, Negar Rostamzadeh, P. Nicholas, N'Mah Yilla-Akbari, Jess Gallegos, A. Smart, Emilio Garcia, Gurleen Virk   +10 more
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School-based harm reduction with adolescents: a pilot study [PDF]

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2022
A pilot study of Safety First: Real Drug Education for Teens showed significant results pre to post curriculum with high school freshmen. Negative outcomes of drug education are linked to a failure to engage students because of developmentally ...
Nina Rose Fischer
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Public health impact and harm reduction implications of xylazine-involved overdoses: a narrative review

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Introduction Xylazine, an α2-adrenoceptor agonist sedative commonly used in veterinary medicine, is not approved for human use. Nevertheless, xylazine-involved overdose rates have surged in recent years, fueled by an increasingly toxic and synthetic ...
David T. Zhu
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A scoping review of implementation considerations for harm reduction vending machines

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Community-based harm reduction vending machines (HRVM) are not new to the field of public health; numerous countries have implemented them in response to the needs of people who use drugs over the last three decades.
Erin Russell, Jessica Johnson, Zach Kosinski, Callie Kaplan, Nicole Barnes, Sean Allen, Emily Haroz   +6 more
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Gambling harm prevention and harm reduction in online environments: a call for action

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Gambling is increasingly offered and consumed in online and mobile environments. The digitalisation of the gambling industry poses new challenges on harm prevention and harm reduction.
V. Marionneau, Heidi Ruohio, Nina Karlsson   +2 more
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“The new normal has become a nonstop crisis”: a qualitative study of burnout among Philadelphia’s harm reduction and substance use disorder treatment workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background The COVID-19 pandemic worsened the ongoing overdose crisis in the United States (US) and caused significant mental health strain and burnout among health care workers (HCW). Harm reduction, overdose prevention, and substance use disorder (SUD)
I. C. Unachukwu, Matthew P. Abrams, A. Dolan, Kehinde Oyekemi, Zachary F. Meisel, Eugenia C South, S. Aronowitz   +6 more
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Integrating Harm Reduction into Medical Care: Lessons from Three Models

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 2023
Background: Substance use disorders (SUDs) are at a national high, with significant morbidity and mortality. Harm reduction, a public-health strategy aimed at reducing the negative consequences of a risky behavior without necessarily eliminating the ...
Ji E Chang, Zoe Lindenfeld, Holly Hagan
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Harm reduction social work with people who use drugs: a qualitative interview study with social workers in harm reduction services in Sweden

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Social work with people who use drugs (PWUD) has traditionally focused on abstinence and rehabilitation. In recent years, harm reduction has gained an increasingly more important role in social work with PWUD, and social workers are key ...
Torkel Richert, Anke Stallwitz, Johan Nordgren   +2 more
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