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Revisiting Harm Reduction Strategy: Is Harm Reduction Harmful?

Ethics & Medics, 2023
Harm reduction strategies aim at protecting those with substance use disorders from using in dangerous situations. This is done by providing safe injection sites with clean needles, as well as other controlled situations that prevent the spread of disease and decrease the likelihood of overdose.
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Kantian Harm Reduction

Health Care Analysis, 2020
The justification for harm reduction as an approach to drug use and addiction is seen by many to be consequentialist in form and it has been claimed that as a deontologist Kant would reject harm reduction. I argue this is wrong on both counts. A more nuanced understanding of harm reduction and Kant shows them compatible.
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Reducing the Harm of “Harm Reduction”

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2008
The article in this issue by Alan Leshner tackles one of the most contentious issues in drug use policy today and argues that we should dispense with "harm reduction" altogether--not the programs, policies, and interventions to which this term refers but the term itself.
D J, Beirness   +3 more
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Harm-Reduction Interventions

2014
The goal of harm reduction is to reduce both the individual and societal harms of drug use through knowledge-based interventions that change risks, risk behaviours and risk settings. This chapter describes the main harm-reduction interventions implemented in many countries around the world, synthesises evidence on their effectiveness and risks and ...
Dagmar Hedrich, Richard Hartnoll
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Harm Reduction

2015
As member states of the United Nations take stock of the drug control system, a number of debates have emerged among governments about how to balance international drug laws with human rights, public health, alternatives to incarceration, and experimentation with regulation.
Csete, Joanne, Wolfe, Daniel
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Defining harm reduction

Drug and Alcohol Review, 1995
AbstractHarm reduction attempts to reduce the adverse consequences of drug use among persons who continue to use drugs. It developed in response to the excesses of a “zero tolerance approach”. Harm reduction emphasizes practical rather than idealized goals.
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Harm Reduction

2020
Throughout the Downtown Eastside, popular music facilitators use song in a number of ways to promote the capabilities of addicted people in ways that arguably support their human right to health. They use music to shift emotions and promote self-esteem that could minimize certain negative effects of substance misuse (e.g., stigma).
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Harm Reduction

Academic Psychiatry, 2023
Rebecca J. Haines-Saah, Elaine Hyshka
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