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The Harm reduction-movement has clearly gathered momentum since the first conference in Liverpool, both on the scientific as at the political level. Since the first conference, where most participants were grass root workers, there is a clear trend in these conferences to adress more and more the...
After a decade of steady diffusion in the drugs field, the harm reduction movement, posing pragmatic public health solutions based on empirical analysis, is still hindered by dissension and general confusion as to its underlying ideals. Despite having short-term political advantages, its 'value-neutr...
culturally specific services, cross-modalities, long-term sustainability, etc. User-to-user interventions, education, organizing and advocacy History: changing the dialogue around harm reduction and identifying future strategies Practical
The history of harm reduction in the USA has led to the development of some of the most important methods for treating persons for drug use disorders, such as methadone and buprenorphine for opiate use disorder. However, there has been fierce political resistance to implementation and scale-up ...
(the Drug War). Although, seemingly reasonable arguments can be made to support both sides of the dispute, the recent global trend towards harm reduction has resulted from the acknowledgement that drug use has been a part of all societies throughout history and the realization that repressive ...
The harm reduction movement, which promotes the provision of interventions that reduce the risk that people are exposed to when they choose to use drugs, while admitting that it is not possible to eliminate all drug use [60] offers a practical conception of consequentialist ethical theory [6]....
Although public health problems can be framed as technical rather than value-oriented, they ultimately require normative engagement with values and principles. According to Roe, the rift in harm reduction reflects a historic tension within the movement, between a moderate and medically dominated politics...
It works pretty much the same for feeling movement, feeling where structure is strong and weak, where there are “empty” spaces we can use and so on. This becomes really important when dealing with resistance, which I wanted to write about as well, but this is getting long again, so th...
(eight of 11) had ongoing daily or near-daily injection use. The remaining three had a history of substance use and were linked to the recruiting organizations, as above, treatment for their substance use or a shelter and meal program, and thus were knowledgeable about harm reduction ...