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Liz Evans (born August 30, 1965) is a Canadian nurse and harm reduction pioneer. She is the founder of the nonprofit Portland Hotel Society and a cofounder of North America's first sanctioned supervised-injection facility, Insite.
Decriminalisation as a harm-reduction strategy gives the ability to treat substance use disorder solely as a public health issue rather than a criminal activity. This enables other harm-reduction strategies to be employed, which results in a lower incidence of HIV infection. [105]
Bluelight is a web-forum, research portal, online community, and non-profit organization dedicated to harm reduction in drug use. [1] [2] Its userbase includes current and former substance users, academic researchers, drug policy activists, and mental health advocates.
One, she believes wholeheartedly in the concept of harm reduction as a proven strategy to lessen the impacts of injection drug use on individuals and communities—be that through the suppression ...
One solution, harm reduction — which essentially provides a safer way to use drugs — has become a topic of passionate debate in a city and neighborhood with one of the worst rates of overdose ...
The San Francisco Health Commission unanimously passed a resolution adopting harm reduction as a policy on September 5, 2000. [36] This was passed as a means for drug users' health as well as the prevention of sexually transmitted infections and HIV.
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.
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 ...