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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 ...
Sam Shirley-Beavan +4 more
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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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Journal of Food and Drug Analysis, 2013 The "Harm Reduction" session was chaired by Dr. Jacques Normand, Director of the AIDS Research Program of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse. The three presenters (and their presentation topics) were: Dr. Don Des Jarlais (High Coverage Needle/Syringe Programs for People Who Inject Drugs in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review ...
Normand, Jacques +3 more
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Harm Reduction: A Misnomer [PDF]
Health Care Analysis, 2020 Abstract‘Harm reduction’ programs are usually justified on the utilitarian grounds that they aim to reduce the net harms of a behavior. In this paper, I contend that (1) the historical genesis of harm reduction programs, and the crucial moral imperative that distinguishes these programs from other interventions and policies, are not utilitarian; (2 ...
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The definition of harm reduction [PDF]
Drug and Alcohol Review, 1998 Welcome to the Harm Reduction Digest, where in each regular edition of Thug and Alcohol Review invited co‐authors will contribute to pieces on the theory and practice of harm reduction. While the focus of subsequent HR Digests will be accounts of the practice of harm reduction interventions, programmes and policies from around the world, it was decided
Lenton, Simon, Single, E.
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Controlled drinking, harm reduction and their roles in the response to alcohol-related problems [PDF]
, 2006 This article first distinguishes three meanings of the term ‘harm reduction’ in the literature on alcohol problems: a European sense in which a change in drinking is not necessarily required; an American sense which includes the controlled drinking (CD ...
Heather, Nick
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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.
Stephanie Parent +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 ...
Colleen Daniels +8 more
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Harm reduction among injecting drug users - evidence of effectiveness [PDF]
, 2010 This chapter synthesises and evaluates the available direct evidence relating to the impact of needle and syringe programmes (NSPs), opioid substitution treatment (OST), drug consumption rooms (DCRs), and peer naloxone distribution (PND) on HIV/hepatitis
Goldberg, David +5 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2023 Background Harm Reduction (HR) policies for People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) have a significant positive impact on their health. Such approaches limit the spread of infections and reduce opioid overdose mortality.
Magally Torres-Leguizamon +5 more
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