Harm reduction, a term often used in discussions of drug users and prostitutes. Rather than taking a moralistic approach, or focusing on punishment and rehabilitation, the harm reduction approach tries to reduce the harm that comes to such offenders. Harm reduction policies are meant to manage behaviors such as recreational drug use and sexual activity in numerous risky settings. A vast majority of harm reduction initiatives are educational campaigns that aim to reduce drug-related harm.
Harm reduction example, providing drug users with clean needles, or perhaps with a safe place to shoot-up, or even to provide them with standardized heroin. The community could provide a safe area for prostitutes to work, and provide free testing for infectious diseases Franck Muller Swiss Replica . All of this will result in harm reduction to the ‘offenders’ but in the long-term should also reduce harm to the community. Street-level harm-reduction strategies have definitely succeeded in reducing HIV transmission in injecting drug users and sex-workers.
Harm Reduction for the
Prevention of Youth Gambling Problems
Laurie M. Dickson, Jeffrey L. Derevensky, Rina Gupta.
Harm reduction approach in the field of adolescent alcohol and substance abuse is popular in many countries. A harm reduction approach to prevention and treatment of youth problem gambling remains largely unexplored.rolex replica watches This article poses the question of whether the harm reduction paradigm is a promising approach to the prevention of adolescent problem gambling and other risky behavior.
The authors present current prevention initiatives that have emerged from the harm reduction health paradigm for adolescent substance and alcohol abuse. The risk-protective factor model is used as a conceptual basis for designing youth problem gambling harm reduction prevention programs. This framework illustrates the developmental appropriateness of the harm reduction approach for youth. Implications drawn from this conceptual examination of harm reduction as a prevention approach to adolescent problem gambling provide valuable information.
Substance abuse and developments in harm reduction - Yuet W. Cheung, Dr. Cheung is Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong. - A drug is a substance that produces a psychoactive, chemical or medicinal effect on the user. The psychoactive effect of mood-altering drugs is modulated by the user's perception of the risks of drug use, his or her ability to control drug use and the demographic, socioeconomic and cultural context. The harm reduction approach, which is based on public health principles, avoids the extremes of value-loaded judgements on drug use and focuses on the reduction of drug-related harm through pragmatic and low-threshold programs.
Harm reduction services for British Columbia's First Nation population: a qualitative inquiry into opportunities and barriers for injection drug users - Dennis Wardman and Darryl Quantz.
Abstract: Background: Aboriginal injection drug users are the fastest growing group of new Human Immunodeficiency Virus cases in Canada. However, there remains a lack of comprehensive harm reduction services available to First Nation persons,Bell & Ross Replica Watches particularly for First Nation people dwelling in rural and reserve communities.
An exploratory study of current harm reduction practices in First Nation communities. The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of the availability and content of current harm reduction practices. Conclusion: It was recommended that community education efforts be directed broadly within the community before establishing harm reduction services and that the readiness of communities be assessed.
Community tobacco control leaders’ perceptions of harm reduction
A M Joseph, D Hennrikus,, M J Thoele, R Krueger and D Hatsukami.
Objective: To investigate community tobacco control leaders’ attitudes toward harm reduction approaches to tobacco use, in order to assess benefits and risks associated with these strategies. Participants discussed definitions of harm reduction; benefits and risks of harm reduction methods; and how funds for tobacco control research and programmes should be allocated.
Results indicated inconsistency about the definition of harm reduction. Many participants stated that harm reduction might be beneficial, particularly for smokers who could not or would not quit. Results indicate that even among tobacco control leaders there is a need for common terminology to describe harm reduction approaches and that public policy approaches to harm reduction are considered more dependable than strategies that involve pharmaceutical treatment or rely on the tobacco industry, such as product modification.
How Effective are Harm Reduction Programmes for Drug Users? Some Insights from an Evaluation of the Programme at Sharan in Delhi. - Kumar Ravi Priya, Suneet Varma, Siddharth Singh, Siddharth Singh is at the Asian Harm Reduction Network, Chiang Mai University. Jimmy Dorabjee, Jimmy Dorabjee is at the Centre for Harm Reduction, Burnet Institute.
Importantly, apart from needle/syringe exchange, oral substitution of drugs, medical care and education to prevent HIV/AIDS, a harm reduction programme provides a psychological space to drug users that not only acts an emotional support but also enables them to reflect upon their life and risk behaviour.
Apart from indicating the need of harm
reduction programmes, this article also evaluates the effectiveness of such a programme
run by Sharan, an NGO in Delhi, during 1999–2002.
“Harm Reduction: The Coming of Age” – the session will
provide a review of the last 18 years in the field of harm reduction and attempt to look
into the future of the field and into how it might develop, including such factors as the
institutionalization of HR and its positive and negative elements.
“Prisons and Harm Reduction” – the session will concentrate on the problems and opportunities concerned with the implementation of harm reduction programs in penitentiary settings.