Jump-starting the conversation about harm reduction: making sense of drug effects

This paper describes the history of development taxonomies psychoactive drug use, and discusses conceptualization three recent taxonomies: comparing their features, considering application in education, treatment, harm reduction settings. Firstly, Drugs Wheel was created 2012, prompted by emergence New Psychoactive Substances rapid developments legislative control. It collaboration with health professionals trainers drugs field, people who use drugs, non-government organizations, as a learning tool for NPS. Secondly, contrast, Drug Pyramid an academic creation published 2016 that aimed to conceptualize multitude NPS then being developed at rate two per week, primarily educational project. Finally, building from limitations identified previous models, Venn authors purpose this consultation staff checking service provider, intention future delivery consultations. Viewed together, each model addresses objections raised its predecessor, doing so highlights multi-dimensional nature taxonomies, potential generation further hypotheses.