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[5] [104] Peer education as a harm reduction strategy has especially reduced the risk of HIV infection, such as in Chad, where this method was the most cost-effective per infection prevented. [ 5 ] Decriminalisation as a harm-reduction strategy gives the ability to treat substance use disorder solely as a public health issue rather than a ...
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]
Tobacco harm reduction (THR) is a public health strategy to lower the health risks to individuals and wider society associated with using tobacco products. It is an example of the concept of harm reduction , a strategy for dealing with the use of drugs.
Harm-reduction policies were popularized in the late 1980s although they began in the 1970s counter-culture where cartoons were distributed to users explaining responsible drug use and consequences of irresponsible drug use. [5] Harm reduction as applied to drug use began as a philosophy in the 1980s aiming to minimize HIV transmission between ...
Neighborhoods can adopt various strategies to reduce violent crime. The broken windows theory, though widely disputed, posits that visible signs of disorder in neighborhoods may encourage criminal activity due to perceived weak social control. Research suggests that changes to the built environment can contribute to crime reduction.
Catalina Hinojosa, a former meth user who went to prison and now leads an outreach team that tries to talk drug users into housing and treatment, told me she’d favor more coercive strategies.
Intravenous drug use is an important risk factor and harm reduction strategies such as needle-exchange programmes and opioid substitution therapy appear effective in decreasing this risk. [47] Needle exchange programs (also known as syringe exchange programs) are effective in preventing HIV among IDUs and in the broader community. [48]
Even when purchased on the black market, regardless of the intentions of the user, the medication works as intended — as harm reduction. One 22-year-old woman addicted to Percocet told researchers in that 2011 report that the stigma of medical treatment for addiction motivated her to buy buprenorphine on the black market.