BURLINGTON, VERMONT — What if, instead of only trying to find new ways to convince students to never use drugs, campuses implemented effective methods to reduce harm for those students who choose to experiment with or even regularly use drugs? That shift in thinking was discussed by panelists...
Emphasizing harm reduction is a popular public health approach to drugs, Neill said. "A harm-reduction approach recognizes the permanence of drugs in society and, instead of trying to eradicate drug use, focuses on minimizing harm associated with drug use for the individual and society," she sai...
A dramatic example of the benefits that can result from a harm reduction approach to drugs is seen with needle exchange programs. While prohibitionists argue that providing clean injection equipment promotes drug use, the facts do not support this contention. For example, the Australian needle excha...
"We believe that abstinence and harm reduction are partners in this fight against overdose, death and against the addiction epidemic," See responded when asked what she would tell those who say they're just allowing people to come in and use drugs. "You cannot recover. You cannot live your...
Drugs, Prisons and Harm ReductionThe use of drugs in society raises important considerations for health and social policy. Critical health and social care issues arise when drugs are used inside prisons. This paper argues that there is an urgent need for prison drug policies to adopt the ...
there has always been a degree of antipathy between those who advocate abstinence (or recovery as we now tend to call it) and those who argue for a harm reduction approach. In theory, both these orientations should happily co-exist and most people in the field are equally happy with both...
Using a grounded theory approach, this qualitative study sought to examine prisoners'... J Long,S Allwright,C Begley - 《International Journal of Drug Policy》 被引量: 26发表: 2004年 A Best Practice Model of Harm Reduction in the Community and in Prisons in the Russian Federation The Final...
Launched in 2004 under the editorship of Prof Ernest Drucker, Harm Reduction Journal has been at the forefront of publishing high quality peer-reviewed research on the harm reduction approach to drugs and addiction. Today, with an expanded focus including alcohol, tobacco and gambling harm ...
The first one argues that we need to 'revision' our approach to women's use of drugs. Another commentary explores the changing relationships between spatiality, (drug) consumption, commercialisation and control by charting the historical and socio-cultural development of dance clubs and public ...
Association of ABCC Gene Polymorphism With Susceptibility to Antituberculosis Drug–Induced Hepatotoxicity in Western Han Patients With Tuberculosis Six-month combination regimens could lead to serious hepatotoxicity, which may limit the clinical use of antituberculosis drugs. ABCC transporters are crit... ...