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Health Promotion Practice, 2023
The Harm Reduction Act, a groundbreaking piece of legislation in New Mexico, provided for the legal use of paraphernalia by New Mexican residents so long as they could present their yellow sharps cards. Unfortunately, tribal governments in New Mexico were not consulted in these changes in harm reduction practices.
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The Harm Reduction Act, a groundbreaking piece of legislation in New Mexico, provided for the legal use of paraphernalia by New Mexican residents so long as they could present their yellow sharps cards. Unfortunately, tribal governments in New Mexico were not consulted in these changes in harm reduction practices.
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Harm reduction: what it is and is not
Drug and Alcohol Review, 1995AbstractThe meaning of the term “harm reduction” has changed over the decades of its existence but it is now increasingly being aligned with public health approaches. An agreed meaning for the term would be helpful and should be sought. Antecedents are easy to find.
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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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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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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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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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2018
Interventions intended to minimize the harms of injecting drug use, particularly drug overdose and exposure to blood-borne viruses, have a long history of implementation in some community settings but are frequently unavailable in prisons. The denial of harm reduction measures to prisoners who inject drugs violates their right to non-discriminatory ...
Kathryn Snow, Michael Levy
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Interventions intended to minimize the harms of injecting drug use, particularly drug overdose and exposure to blood-borne viruses, have a long history of implementation in some community settings but are frequently unavailable in prisons. The denial of harm reduction measures to prisoners who inject drugs violates their right to non-discriminatory ...
Kathryn Snow, Michael Levy
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Substance Use & Misuse, 2008
The article attempts to set harm minimization within drug settings into a larger framework of harm minimization practices. It seeks to provide a plausible account of harm reduction and then explores four ethical challenges for harm reduction strategies.
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The article attempts to set harm minimization within drug settings into a larger framework of harm minimization practices. It seeks to provide a plausible account of harm reduction and then explores four ethical challenges for harm reduction strategies.
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Housing and harm reduction: What is the role of harm reduction in addressing homelessness?
International Journal of Drug Policy, 2013Homelessness and drug use often overlap and the harms of substance use are exacerbated by homelessness. Responding to the twin problems of homelessness and substance use is an important aspect of strategies to end homelessness. The introduction and development of ten year plans to end homelessness in North America heralds a new era of systemic ...
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Merseyside, the first harm reduction conferences, and the early history of harm reduction
International Journal of Drug Policy, 2007In the mid 1980s, Liverpool implemented pioneering approaches to dealing with the problems caused by the use of drugs. The Mersey Harm Reduction Model concentrated on reducing the harms rather than, as previously was the case, trying to reduce drug use itself.
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