Drugs Can Harm

Pregnancy, Drugs, and Harm Reduction

Drugs: blanket ban or harm reduction?

As the commercial success of electronic cigarettes offers the opportunity to study harm reduction by replacement therapy, the UK government steers in the opposite direction and plans to expand the 'war on drugs' with a blanket ban on all psychoactive substances. Michael Gross reports.

Can cardiac resynchronization therapy cause harm?

Most beneficial and effective therapies also have the potential to cause harm. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is now proven by large-scale clinical trials to be highly beneficial for chronic heart failure patients, with reduction in mortality and re-hospitalization, and improved quality of life. However, it does have potential adverse effects such as those associated with any pacemaker...

Reproductive cloning: can cloning harm the clone?

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Can We Harm and Benefit in Creating?

The non-identity problem concerns actions that affect who exists in the future. If such an action is performed, certain people will exist in the future who would not otherwise have existed: they are not identical to any of the people who would have existed if the action had not been performed. Some of these actions seem to be wrong, and they seem to be wrong in virtue of harming the very future...