Fitness doping, and those who participate in it, maybe met with individual-level strategies ranging from criminal penalties to harm reduction efforts. This research compares two distinct approaches to fitness doping: Sweden's prevention-based approach and Scotland's harm reduction approach. Drawing on...
The COVID-19 pandemic health crisis and its potential implications for people who use drugs (PWUD) created permissive conditions toward social innovation and experimentation. Still, it also exposed gaps in harm reduction approaches. Harm reduction responsiveness was informed by the priorities defined at...
High levels of used syringe use and unsafe sex among people who inject drugs in Kumasi, Ghana: an urgent call for a comprehensive harm reduction approach. January 10, 2021 [MEDLINE Abstract] Health literacy and changes in pattern of drug use among participants at the Stockholm Needle Exchange ...
The growing literature showcases several outcomes of interest, with increasing efforts aimed at systematic measures by which to determine the effectiveness and potential risks of MAP. Based on a harm reduction approach, MAPs offer a promising, targeted intervention for individuals with severe AUD and ...
A pragmatic harm reduction approach to manage a large outbreak of wound botulism in people who inject drugs, Scotland 2015. January 11, 2018 [MEDLINE Abstract] Harm reduction and viral hepatitis C in European prisons: a cross-sectional survey of 25 countries. ...
Harm reduction is a critical aspect of managed alcohol, stated throughout most of the featured literature. As seen through this review, participation in a MAP as a harm reduction approach targeting individual risk reduction may directly affect the consumption of alcohol, in particular stabilizing use...
This whole systems approach includes the following: (1) understanding the prevalence of gambling related harms with insights into the consequences and how individuals, their family and friends and wider community are affected; (2) ensuring tackling gambling harms is a key public health commitment at...
So important is the predominant demand reduction approach in the United States that the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Mr. John Walters, has budget certification authority so that he can decertify the budget of any federal department if it does not meet drug control pol...
Age restriction warnings, harm reduction messages and T&Cs do not always appear in paid-for gambling advertising. When they do, visibility is often very poor and the messaging not clear. The findings do not support a self-regulatory approach to managing this information in gambling adverts. ...
To reduce harms related to street-based consumption of illicit drugs, several European countries have added overdose prevention centres to the range of harm reduction services that they provide [1]. These are non-residential spaces where people can consume illicit drugs that they have obtained elsewh...