Harm Reduction and Illegal Drugs: The Real Debate

Re: Mangham C. Harm reduction and illegal drugs: the real debate (commentary) CJPH 2001; 92(3): 204-5.

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Pregnancy, Drugs, and Harm Reduction

Measuring the harm from illegal drugs using the Drug Harm Index

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.

Harm reduction in the home of the war on drugs

It is by now well understood in medicine that narcotic maintenance using methadone offers a powerful tool for reducing the harms of opiate addiction and the array of public health and social problems that can accompany it [1]. In America, apparently, this is not good enough. There has been virtually no change in methadone treatment in the United States throughout the entire period of the AIDS e...