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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 ...
The number of programs providing laypersons with training and take-home naloxone kits has been increasing since 1996. 136 of 140 organizations completed a survey for the Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC) in July 2014 that were known to provide naloxone take-home kits to laypersons in the United States. Between 1996 and June 2014, 152,283 people ...
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 ]
He authored the New York State curriculum on harm reduction, an approach that helped people unable or unwilling to stop using drugs to make positive change, and produced a series of videos on HIV and drug use with Gregg Bordowitz including Clean Needles Save Lives (1991). [46]
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.
Harm reduction vending machines were installed at the entrance of Bucyrus and Galion hospitals as a result of a partnership between Crawford County Public Health and Avita Health System.
Harm reduction psychotherapy Andrew Tatarsky (born August 11, 1955) is an American psychologist and the founder and director of the Center for Optimal Living. [ 1 ] He teaches in New York City as the Professor of Professional Practice for the Harm Reduction Psychotherapy Certificate Program [ 2 ] at the New School for Social Research .
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.