Healthy nightclubs and recreational substance use. From a harm minimisation to a healthy settings approach. Recent trends identify a global rise in the use of drugs such as ecstasy as part of nightlife behaviour. In order to protect young people's health, a varie... Mark A Bellis a,Karen...
Harm minimization in school drug education: final results of the School Health and Alcohol Harm Reduction Project (SHAHRP). Addiction. 2004 ; 99 (3): 278 – 291McBride N, Farringdon F, Midford R, Meuleners L & Philip M 2004 "Harm minimisation in school drug education: Final results of ...
the public portrayal of drugs and drug users will be briefly discussed and, to fully appreciate just what the notion of harm reduction, or harm minimisation means to the everyday operational police officer, the influence of police organisational culture on the implementation of harm reduction strateg...
The latest iteration of the NDS claims harm minimization ‘reduces total harm due to alcohol, tobacco and other drug use through coordinated, multi-agency responses that address the three pillars of harm minimisation’: demand reduction, supply reduction and harm reduction (Australian Government, 2016...
A universal harm-minimisation approach to preventing psychostimulant and cannabis use in adolescents: a cluster randomised controlled trial Psychostimulants and cannabis are two of the three most commonly used illicit drugs by young Australians. As such, it is important to deliver prevention fo... ...
Harm reduction ethics According to Rumbold and Hamilton harm minimisation attempts to “assess the actual harm associated with any particular drug and then asks how these harmful effects may be minimised… within an amoral framework” (1998:135). Ensuring that harm reduction interventions are ethical...
Erratum: Harm minimisation in schools. Final results of the School Health and Alcohol Harm Reduction Project (SHAHRP) (Addiction (2004) 99 (278-291)) The School Health and Alcohol Harm Reduction Project (SHAHRP) is a 4-year, quasi-experimental, evidence-based intervention research study designe...
The new policy mix: Alcohol, harm minimisation, and determined drunkenness in contemporary society This paper reflects on the relationship between harm reduction, demand reduction, and supply reduction (collectively, harm minimisation) in relation to the... F Measham - 《International Journal of Drug...
harm reductioninjecting drug useThis paper uses data on the social context of drug-related harms in the Melbourne Aboriginal Community to inform an alternative model of harm minimisation, and discusses its potential application in programme development. The paper involves a secondary analysis of ...
Therefore, authorities have adopted a more realistic approach to drug policy, termed as 'Harm Reduction' or 'Harm minimisation' in which reduction of adverse consequences of drug use is valued as high priority at least as important as reducing demand and supply. The Needle Syringe Program (NSP)...