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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.
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Historically, United States drug policy has focused on use reduction; harm reduction is a prominent alternative. This paper aims to provoke and inform more debate about the relative merits of these two. Since harm is not necessarily proportional to use, use reduction and harm reduction differ. Both terms are somewhat ambiguous; precisely defining them clarifies thinking and policy implications....
متن کاملHarm Reduction Journal
Statement of purpose Harm Reduction Journal (HRJ) is an Open Access, peer-reviewed international journal of original research and scholarship on drug use and its consequences for individuals , communities, and larger populations. Its focus is on reducing the adverse health, social, and political harms associated with these substances and on the public policies and strategies in place to control...
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Despite the high rates of hospitalization among people who use drugs (PWUD), harm reduction interventions have not been widely adopted in inpatient settings. We list several harm reduction practices that we believe should be considered in hospitals. Interventions to decrease stigma, including guidance regarding language and partnering with people with lived experience of drug use, can be implem...
متن کاملHarm reduction - the cannabis
This article examines harm reduction from a novel perspective. Its central thesis is that harm reduction is not only a social concept, but also a biological one. More specifically, evolution does not make moral distinctions in the selection process, but utilizes a cannabis-based approach to harm reduction in order to promote survival of the fittest. Evidence will be provided from peerreviewed s...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nicotine & Tobacco Research
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1462-2203
DOI: 10.1080/1462220021000032834