This JAMA Patient Page describes harm reduction strategies for people who use drugs, which include testing for drug contaminants, overdose prevention, and reducing risk of infectious disease transmission.Voelker, RebeccaJAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association...
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Making drugs illegal does nothing to stop people from using them, says public health expert Mark Tyndall. So, what might work? Tyndall shares community-based research that shows how harm-reduction strategies, like safe-injection sites, are working to address the drug overdose crisis. death soc...
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This may reflect policing strategies and the need for harm reduction strategies, respectively. Alcohol is known to be a compounding factor and its use is clearly identified as the second most prevalent substance (see bar graph below). Males are more likely to drink and use MDMA and this is ...
On this level, harm reduction needs to be adopted as a bodily style in which self-image, health and well being are valued in relation to drug use. For example, harm reduction strategies for a pregnant woman would not be limited to having an abortion but include reduced consumption, self ...
Farthing, L., Kohl, B., 2012. Supply-side harm reduction strategies: Bolivia's experiment with social control. International Journal of Drug Policy.Farthing, Linda, and Benjamin Kohl. 2012. Supply-Side Reduction Strategies: Bolivia's Experiment with Social Control. International Journal of Drug ...
Harm reduction: is about meeting people where they are at and supporting them to work towards their goals; aims to decrease negative health, social and economic outcomes – such as death, disease and injury; represents policies, strategies, services and practices, which aim to assist people to ...
The Harm Reduction Journal is an open access, community-focused journal for research on reducing risks and harms associated with drug use, gambling, online ...
In a study undertaken in Southwest China, the HIV incident rate among people who inject drugs dropped significantly from 2.5 to 0.6 cases per 100 person-years after the implementation of harm reduction strategies including NSP, OST, counselling, and condom promotion [9]. And a further study in...