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Between Care and Control: Examining Surveillance Practices in Harm Reduction

open access: yesContemporary Drug Problems, 2022
As harm reduction programs and services proliferate, people who use drugs (PWUD) are increasingly subjected to surveillance through the collection of their personal information, systematic observation, and other means.
L. Michaud   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Intersecting substance use treatment and harm reduction services: exploring the characteristics and service needs of a community-based sample of people who use drugs

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background Substance use treatment and harm reduction services are essential components of comprehensive strategies for reducing the harms of drug use and overdose.
N. Krawczyk   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Harm reduction calls to action from young people who use drugs on the streets of Vancouver and Lisbon

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2022
Vancouver, Canada, and Lisbon, Portugal, are both celebrated for their world-leading harm reduction policies and programs and regarded as models for other cities contending with the effects of increasing levels of drug use in the context of growing urban
Joana Canêdo   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Decolonizing harm reduction

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2022
In this essay, I show that notwithstanding the undeniable colonial origins of punitive drug policies around the world, such policies have figured in nationalist projects and populist platforms in various postcolonial states, and today they are viewed as ...
G. Lasco
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Harm reduction

open access: yesJournal 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Harm Reduction: A Misnomer [PDF]

open access: yesHealth 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 ...
openaire   +3 more sources

The definition of harm reduction [PDF]

open access: yesDrug 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.
openaire   +4 more sources

Are you tripping comfortably? Investigating the relationship between harm reduction and the psychedelic experience

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background Alongside a recent revival in the use of psychedelics in clinical settings, there have been increases in the prevalence of recreational use, with many using psychedelics to deal with difficult emotions or to improve well-being.
Madelene Palmer, O. Maynard
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“They're causing more harm than good”: a qualitative study exploring racism in harm reduction through the experiences of racialized people who use drugs

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background Increased opioid-related morbidity and mortality in racialized communities has highlighted the intersectional nature of the drug policy crisis.
Parnika Godkhindi   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The challenges, opportunities and strategies of engaging young people who use drugs in harm reduction: insights from young people with lived and living experience

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2022
The meaningful inclusion of young people who use or have used drugs is a fundamental aspect of harm reduction, including in program design, research, service provision, and advocacy efforts.
Mollie Stowe   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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