Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Bluelight does not condemn or condone drug use, but instead advocates educating individuals to make informed decisions, connecting them with local harm reduction services, and providing them with evidence-based harm reduction resources and public safety notices. Bluelight emphasizes "meeting users where they are", and supporting them whether ...
Beddis believes harm reduction sites work because she once came to Kensington in the throes of addiction. "I became chemically dependent on substances when I was around 19," she said. "I entered ...
They state that harm reduction should not lead to less efforts to reduce drug demand. [111] Pope Benedict XVI criticised harm reduction policies with regards to HIV/AIDS, saying that it was "a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems". [112]
Harm reduction consists of a series of strategies aimed at reducing the negative impacts of drug use on users. [1] It has been described as an alternative to the U.S.'s moral model and disease model of drug use and addiction. [ 2 ]
The NHRC emerged from a Harm Reduction Working Group (HRWG) organized in 1993 by Francie and Stephanie Comer, Dan Bigg, George Clark (head of San Francisco's needle exchange), and Dave Purchase. [2] Many of the attendees at the first meeting had worked with (or founded) needle exchanges in different cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco ...
The most popular items in the harm reduction vending machines are COVID-19 test kits and condoms, which helps reduce sexually transmitted infections and decrease the risk of COVID-19 spread.
Sources that I've read in the past, especially on Bluelight, proposed the idea that Harm Reduction and Harm Minimisation are different ideologies with the same goals.I've read that Harm Minimisation should be considered to minimise harm by focusing on the reduction of use rather than safer use and thus employs tactics such as supply line reduction, strengthened law enforcement etc etc. Harm ...
Despite local apprehensions — which is a near constant in addiction-related harm reduction work — naloxone vending machines are now a fixture across the country, from places like Philadelphia ...