Harm reduction is a framework built upon respect for people who use drugs. Pregnancy is a priceless window of opportunity for positive change, when parents are driven to improve their health and well-being for their future child, and harm reduction can provide directi...
Harm reduction doesn't apply to just drug use: Experts interviewed for this story also said the tenets of harm reduction can be applied to sex, COVID-19 and even driving: Shreeta Waldon, the executive director of the Kentucky Harm Reduction Coalition, said that she often starts harm reductio...
Harm reduction in its many forms has been a focus for branches of society as a means of improving public wellbeing for generations.Individuals, social organizations and businesses have long applied behavioral, cognitive and social sciences to nudge consumers towards healthier habits. For instance, inc...
Harm reduction measures have helped drug users reduce the risk and severity of adverse consequences without leading to increases in overall levels of drug use in the general population. Indeed, in many cases harm reduction has been a vital first step towards recovery from addiction. This presentatio...
Harm reduction programs look to help those dealing with addiction by providing them with things like clean needles. Critics say harm reduction only makes things worse, while proponents say they help save lives. Mark Strassmann takes a look at how one program is being deployed on the Cherokee Nat...
Scientific papers suggesting that smokers are less likely to fall ill with COVID-19 are being discredited as links to the tobacco industry, reveals an investigation by The BMJ today.
This paper aims to examine the challenges and implications of the Village and Commune Safety Policy (VCSP) on harm-reduction programs and describe lessons learned from a harm-reduction program within the context of the VCSP in Cambodia. Data were collected from a monitoring and evaluation databas...
2020), which may cause consumers to implement food waste behaviors that are contrary to their intentions. In other words, consumers may have the intention to reduce food waste but fail to do so (Visschers et al. 2016), a phenomenon that scholars refer to as the intention-behavior gap (...
Using policy levers to reduce the risk of tobacco/nicotine use The potential for tobacco harm reduction interventions is clarified by examining how risk reduction strategies have been applied elsewhere. The long battles to establish regulations pertaining to the manufacturing of food products or to repl...
Harm reduction principles for healthcare settings The key difference between the two birth-trauma stories lies in each hospital's response. The first case was marked by a lack of transparency and prioritizing the hospital’s short-term financial interests over the patient and family and, w...