The historical roots of harm reduction programs in Europe (Netherlands and the United Kingdom) are described. The paper concludes with a discussion of four basic assumptions central to harm reduction: (a) harm reduction is a public health alternative to the moral/criminal and disease models of ...
This is despite the availability of harm reduction strategies, such as opioid substitution therapy and needle and syringe programs that are effective for the prevention of HCV infection among people who inject drugs. As safe, tolerable and effective HCV direct゛cting antiviral (DAA) therapy is ...
Harm reduction is a specific school of practice in public health and safety that aims to reduce the harm caused by certain behaviors without requiring the full elimination of the behavior. For example, harm reduction involved in the practice of drug use can include policies and programs for ...
Micro-assault: A microaggression that is deliberate and intended to cause harm by excluding or demeaning someone else. Micro-insult: A statement or perspective that demeans another person's background. For example, a statement that someone's skill set or financial situation is based...
Harm reduction is critical. Strategies proven highly effective in the community should be widely accessible inside prisons, including opioid substitution treatment and needle and syringe programs. Despite widespread support for prison-based needle and syringe programs andinternational evidenceshowing that they...
Therefore, CSOsare instrumental in developing and implementing effective harm reduction interventions as well as HCV care by directly engaging with PWID, understanding their needs and often serving as first-line service providers, introducing PWID into HCV continuum-of-care [20]. However, in several ...
Patients receiving prevention services from health educators, social workers or paraprofessional HIV-infected peers reported significant reduction in risk at 6 months, but not at 12 months. While clinics have a choice of effective models for implementing prevention programs for their HIV-infected ...
have been reported in obese patients (BMI > 39 kg/m2) on long-term anticoagulation with dabigatran for AF. The two patients had sub-therapeutic trough dabigatran levels and supra-physiologic creatinine clearance [92,93], suggesting fixed-dose dabigatran may be insufficiently effective in sev...
Within the UK and in many other countries two of the most significant issues with regard to the development of health and social care services for drug users has been the growth of the consumer perspective and the philosophy of harm reduction. In this paper we look at drug users' aspirations...
This was followed by the identification of environmental management practices aimed at reducing the environmental impact of products, such as eco-design practices (Zhu et al.,2005), products that promote cost-effective and environmentally preferable uses (Nissinen et al.,2007), and complying with ...