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Harm reduction, or harm minimization, refers to a range of intentional practices and public health policies designed to lessen the negative social and/or physical consequences associated with various human behaviors, both legal and illegal. [1] Harm reduction is used to decrease negative consequences of recreational drug use and sexual activity ...
Drug education is the planned provision of information, guidelines, resources, and skills relevant to living in a world where psychoactive substances are widely available and commonly used for a variety of both medical and non-medical purposes, some of which may lead to harms such as overdose, injury, infectious disease (such as HIV or hepatitis C), or addiction.
Breakdown by age revealed the age range between 16 and 17 had highest prevalence (13.6%), followed by the 14 to 15 age range (4.6%), and the 12 to 13 age range (1.2%). In terms of socioeconomic status, there was a greater prevalence of youth currently smoking below the poverty level (7.6%) than at or above the poverty level (6.2%). [ 7 ]
[12] [13] The researchers found that D.A.R.E.'s long-term effect could not be determined, because the corresponding studies were "compromised by severe control group attrition or contamination". [13] However, the study concluded that in the short-term "DARE imparts a large amount of information, but has little or no impact on students' drug use ...
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 ]
Nearly 1 in 5 young people worldwide intentionally injure themselves every year. xijian/E! via Getty ImagesEmotions are tricky things. They allow for humans to fall in love, wage war and, as it ...
Truth (stylized as truth) is an American public-relations campaign aimed at reducing teen smoking in the United States.It is conducted by the Truth Initiative (formerly called the American Legacy Foundation until 2015) and funded primarily by money obtained from the tobacco industry under the terms of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement reached between 46 U.S. states and the four largest ...
In 2015, DoSomething.org partnered with Truth, the nation's longest-running and most successful youth smoking prevention campaign, to encourage young people to clean up cigarette butts before they had the chance to harm wildlife or leach toxic chemicals into the environment. [17]