Flexibility of Treaty Provisions as Regards Harm Reduction Approaches
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3. Being this recent harm reduction was not foreseen by any of the international drug control treaties. Therefore, there is no treaty-based definition for it and there are no specific treaty provisions that may be applied to the concept as such, at least not in general terms. A useful, albeit non-binding definition has been outlined by UNDCP in its publication Demand Reduction – A glossary of Terms, as follows:
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