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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 ...
Thanks for all their efforts to prioritize getting naloxone into the hands of people who use drugs and their loved ones,” Dr. Kimberly Sue, medical director for the National Harm Reduction ...
National Harm Reduction Coalition, an American advocacy group; National Human Rights Commission of India, a statutory body established in 1993, under the provisions of The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 (TPHRA) Naval Health Research Center, a military research center that is operated by the U.S Department of Defense on San Diego, California
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 ]
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President Biden's National Drug Control Strategy has a whole section on harm reduction, saying, "Research shows harm reduction programs produce results." The government this year greenlit a $5 ...
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]
These “harm reduction” supplies keep drug users alive and safe from infection and transmission of diseases including HIV and Hepatitis C, members of the outreach team say, and the pipes help ...