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For the Biden administration to take advantage of the population health benefits of harm reduction — most importantly to save lives — it needs a full defense of all its forms. In order to save more lives, the moment calls for courage, not compromise. It also calls for some consistency. M...
Q: What are harm reduction strategies and how might they help this population? Kimberly Sue: Harm reduction strategies are simply a variety of tips and techniques that we can use where we don't ask that people have or require abstinence, but really rather that people can use more safely and...
In including on the list items such as Good Samaritan bystander laws and syringe exchange programs, and in suggesting that initiatives should meet opioid‐affected individuals where they are on the continuum of change, the tone of the report indicates a clear embracing of harm reduction as a ...
1 Although the mechanisms are not fully understood, RLS is associated with many physical and mental conditions, including poor sleep,2-4 depression,5-7 cardiovascular diseases,8-10 attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder,11 obesity,12 and diabetes,13 and leads to a significant reduction in the ...
The most basic harm reduction message for users addresses essential human needs: eat, drink water, and sleep. Meeting these needs will help the body withstand highs, ease crashes, and delay the onset of paranoia -- all effective "selling points" for users. ...
Fraiman said that without booster trials that are large enough to find a risk reduction in hospitalizations, “we, the medical establishment, cannot call out anti-COVID vaccine activists who publicly claim the vaccine harms more than they save, especially in the young and healthy. The fact that...
When questions arose about health risks of tobacco, they focused on two key themes: 1) how bad is the problem (i.e., absolute risk) and 2) what can be done to reduce the risk without cessation (i.e., prospects for harm reduction). Using the United States since 1964 as an example,...
institutional and time boundaries. The suitability of online CoPs in public health, however, has rarely been tested. This paper explores the reasons why particular online CoP for alcohol harm reduction hosted by the UK Health Forum failed to generate sufficient interest from the group of public hea...
Unsurprisingly, a fitted N95 mask resulted in the most effective reduction in droplet emissions, with a surgical mask relatively close behind. However, most homemade cotton masks tested delivered strong results, blocking droplet emissions at rates not far off what was seen...