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 ...
When is harm reduction effective? What group dynamics may harm the helping process? Who developed the concept of the sleeper effect? What is the self-help movement, and what are some cautions for its use? a. What is prejudice, and how can its harmful effects be reduced? b. How can peop...
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 ...
Harm reduction programs, designed to mitigate drug harms, fail to recognize the health risks, including tiredness and sleep problems, related to the widespread use of energy drinks and other legal stimulants by youth (Hardon and Hymans 2016). Instead, such programs focus on risks of ...
These cuts would devastate local programs and harm reduction services, which rely on federal funding passed through to states. It’s still unclear whether these programs will be folded into RFK Jr.’s newly created arm of HHS— the Administration for Healthy America—or to what extent they’ll...
Further research is also needed to establish which measures and programs are more cost-effective in reducing the adverse health impacts. Additionally, more research is urgently required into mechanisms of improving the utilization of services by the vulnerable populations and groups during heatwaves in ...
In addition to the low rates of medication-assisted treatment, we found a lack of adoption of harm-reduction strategies, such as overdose education and naloxone distribution. These patients have high rates of unintentional overdose (34.6% in one study) and increased risk of drug-related death fol...
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...
Therapeutic Communities were instituted in prisons for all the right reasons – there was a desperate need for effective substance abuse treatment programs and TC's were well-suited to the prison environment in many ways. The format and content of TCs was developed to address the antisocial man,...
CEB emphasizes that organizations need to use an understanding of psychology to tailor their awareness efforts; awareness programs must target the specific root causes of employees' risky behavior in order to be effective. The company initially identified five psychological factors influencing security ...